The Bitter Years exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Exhibition catalog

The Bitter Years

1935-1941

Rural America as seen by the photographers of the Farm Security Administration

Edited by Edward Steichen, Director Emeritus

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Oct. 18 — Nov. 25, 1962

RA > FSA — September 1, 1937
FSA > OWI — October 1942

Wall 1

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  John Vachon. Picket line at Mid-City Realty Company. South Chicago, Illinois. July 1941.
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  Ben Shahn. Coal miner's child. Omar, West Virginia. October 1935.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps, company houses, coal tipple in background. Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia. September 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Nettie Featherston, wife of a migratory laborer with 3 children, near Childress, Texas. “If you die, you're dead—that's all.” Texas Panhandle, June 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. He has picked cotton all day and stands at the edge of the field and the cotton wagon. Eloy, Arizona, 1940.
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  Dorothea Lange. Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California. 1935
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  Carl Mydans. Interior of wood shack built upon Ford truck chassis housing father, mother, and seven children. This view shows the mother and two of her children. Tennessee. They were found on U.S. Route 70, between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, near Tennessee River. March 1936.
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  Jack Delano (JOHN COLLIER, JR.?) Mr. Merritt Bundy, miner and farmer, member of the Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at Du Bois, Pennsylvania. August 1940.

Wall 2 (Drought and Erosion)

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  Arthur Rothstein. An abandoned farm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. April 1936.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Dry and parched earth in the Bad Lands of South Dakota. May 1936.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Two African-American children and old home on badly eroded land near Wadesboro, North Carolina. December 1938.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Eroded land tenant's farm, Walker County, Alabama. February 1937.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Corn withered by the heat and chewed by grasshoppers. July 1936.
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  Jack Delano. Mrs. Mary Willis, widow, who with two children runs a rented farm near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia. June 1941.

Wall 3 (Disaster)

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  Dorothea Lange. Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in California. Kern County. November 1938.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma. April 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort, which forced many farmers to abandon the area. New Mexico, April 1935.

Wall 4

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  Ben Shahn. Arkansas squatter's home. October 1935.
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  Russell Lee. Child looking out of window of tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sequoyah County. June 1939.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Old African American, near Camden, Alabama. May 1939.
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  Ben Shahn. Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas. October, 1935.
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  Walker Evans. People in the line-up for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. February 1937.
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  Russell Lee. Child in May's Avenue Camp, Oklahoma, eating an overripe canteloupe found in market. July, 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Detail of woman's head. Undated.
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  Russell Lee. Christmas dinner in home of E.P., near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage, and pie. December 1936

Wall 5

(ANGUS McDOUGALL) (5 photographs of Roy E. Stryker. Courtesy of International Harvester Co.)

Wall 6

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  Dorothea Lange. Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia. July, 1937.

Wall 7 (Cotton)

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  Jack Delano. Plowing a field of cotton, Greene County, Georgia. June 1941.
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  Jack Delano. Mr. W. H. Holmes, a renter on the Wray place, plowing sweet potatoes, Greene County, Georgia. November 1941.
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  Dorothea Lange. Young cotton picker, Kern County, Migrant Camp. California, November 1936.

Wall 8 (Cotton)

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  Dorothea Lange. These cotton hoers work from 6 am to 7 pm for $1. Near Clarksdale, Mississippi. June, 1937. Mississippi Delta plantation. Use of machinery in cotton production is increasing. It is displacing labor and dislodging tenants. Day laborers for seasonal peaks of hoeing and picking are drawn back from the nearest towns in trucks.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Member of Allen Plantation Cooperative Association and her children taking a rest from hoeing cotton, near Natchitoches, Louisiana. July 1940
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  Dorothea Lange. Hoe culture, Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston. June 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Hoe culture in the South, near Eutaw, Alabama. July 1936.
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  Russell Lee. Picking cotton, members of Lake Dick Cooperative Association working together. September 1938.
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  Ben Shahn. Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas. October 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are being paid 75 cents per 100 pounds picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO Union are demanding $1. A good male picker, in good cotton under favorable weather conditions, can pick about 200 pounds in a day's work. November 1938.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Picking cotton on plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. J. A. Johnson's youngest son, Statesville, North Carolina, Route 3, plowing cotton. October 1939. (Error in the description.)
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  Ben Shahn. Arkansas cotton pickers, Pulaski County. October 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Plantation Owner. Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale, Mississippi. June 1936.

Wall 9 (Sharecroppers)

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  Walker Evans. Corner of kitchen in Floyd Burroughs' cabin, Alabama. 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Home of Bud Fields, Alabama sharecropper. 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Corner of kitchen in Bud Fields' home, Alabama. 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Bud Fields and his family at home, Alabama. 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Bud Fields, cotton sharecropper, Alabama. 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Landowner in Moundville, Alabama. August 1936,

Wall 10 (Sharecroppers)

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  Arthur Rothstein. Wife and child of a sharecropper. Washington County, Arkansas. August 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Home of white tenant farmer family, Newport, Oklahoma. June 1937.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama. April 1937.
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  Walker Evans. African American cabin, Hale County, Alabama. 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Kitchen wall in Bud Fields' house, Alabama. 1936.
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  Jack Delano. Children of a "squatter" family who were preparing to move out of the Spartanburg army camp area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina region. March 1941.
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  Jack Delano. One of the children of a "squatter" family that had to move out of the Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina region. March 1941.
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  Russell Lee. Family, squatting on FSA property. Caruthersville, Missouri. August 1938. [1]
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  Russell Lee. Son of sharecropper combing hair in bedroom of shack, Southeast Missouri Farms. May 1938.
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  Ben Shahn. Children of Fortuna family. Hammond, Louisiana. October 1955. (Strawberry pickers).
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  Ben Shahn. (Detail from) Family of Rehabilitation Client, Boone County, Arkansas. October 1935.
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  Ben Shahn. Wife and children of sharecropper. October 1935.
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  Russell Lee. Children looking outside of window of shack home, Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. July 1939.
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  Russell Lee. Child of white migrant worker in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas. January, 1939.
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  Russell Lee. Children of agricultural day laborer in doorway of home near Tullahassee, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. June, 1939.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Child of North Carolina Sharecropper. He has two strikes on him already, September 1935.
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  Walker Evans. “Squeakie” asleep (Othel Lee Burroughs), son of Floyd Burroughs, Alabama sharecropper. Summer 1936.
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  Walker Evans. Sharecropper's child, Alabama. 1936
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  Ben Shahn. Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County, Arkansas. October 1935.
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  Destitute tenant farmer's family, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas. October 1935.

Wall 11 (Sharecroppers)

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  Jack Delano. Mrs. Lemuel Smith preparing the afternoon meal on her farm in Carroll County, Georgia. April 1941.
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  Walker Evans. Washroom in the dog-run of Floyd Burroughs' cabin, Alabama. 1936.
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  Paul Carter. Tubercular mother and child. New York City. April, 1936.
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  Russell Lee. Baby in front of dresser in John Baker's farm home. Divide County, North Dakota. November 1937.
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  Theodor Jung. Interior of a home of prospective client. Brown County, Indiana. October 1935.
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  Jack Delano. Interior of rural house, Greene County, Georgia. June 1941.

Wall 12 (Sharecroppers and Other Rural Subjects)

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  Dorothea Lange. Woman on relief, Memphis, Texas. June 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Twelve year-old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi. June 1937.
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  Russell Lee. FSA client, former sharecropper, Southeast Missouri farms. 1938.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Inhabitants of Gee's Bend, Alabama. April 1937.
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  Russell Lee. African American on porch of general store, Louisiana, October 1938.
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  John Vachon. Ozark mountain farmer and family, Missouri. May 1940.
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  Walker Evans. Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama. 1936
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  Walker Evans. Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of Alabama cotton tenant farmer. 1936
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  Walker Evans. Lucille Burroughs, daughter of cotton cropper, Hale County, Alabama. 1936.
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  Carl Mydans. Baby girl of family living in Natchez Trace Project, near Lexington, Tennessee. Mars 1936.
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  Russell Lee. William Horavitch's family eating dinner, Williams County, North Dakota. September 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Grandmother, mother and new-born baby of a sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi. June 1937.
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  Russell Lee. Daughter of migrant auto wrecker doing her lessons on bed in tent home, Corpus Christi, Texas. February 1939.

Wall 13 ("Tractored Out")

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  Dorothea Lange. Power farming displaces tenants from the land in the western dry cotton area, Texas Panhandle. June, 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. O.O. Mills, United States Country Postmaster at Carey, Texas. Small Texas town in area being depopulated by tractor farming. “The tractors are keeping our families from making a living.” June 1938.
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  Ben Shahn. Roadside advertising along Route 40, central Ohio. Summer 1938. The code in the exhibition catalog doesn't match any picture. This is the best matching this description.
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  John Vachon. Field with deserted house, Dewey County, South Dakota. February 1942. The code in the exhibition catalog doesn't match any picture. This is the best matching this description.
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  Dorothea Lange. Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta, June, 1937.

Wall 14 (Eviction)

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  Arthur Rothstein. State highway officials moving sharecroppers from roadside to area between levee and Mississippi River, New Madrid County, Missouri. January 1939.
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  THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL (page from) (Reproduced from An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor). January 11, 1939.
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  Arthur Rothstein. State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from the roadside to area between Levee and Mississippi River. New Madrid County, Missouri. January 1939.
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  Walker Evans. Furniture of evicted sharecroppers from Dibble Plantation, Arkansas. January, 1936.

Wall 15 (On the Road - Automobile)

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  Dorothea Lange. Route 99 near Tracy, California. Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. Worked in California sawmill at 40 cents an hour until it closed. Went to cotton fields at end of harvest, made $5 a week “just scrappin' along; we're not tramps; we hold ourselves to be white folks. He was forced out; we couldn't stay there.” A common story. Broke, hungry, sick, car trouble. February, 1937.

Wall 16 (On the Road)

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  Dorothea Lange. One migrant family hauls the broken-down car of the other to the pea fields at Nepoma, U.S. Route 101, California. February 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Car of drought refugees on the edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley, California. Spring, 1937.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Tenant farmer moving his household goods to a new farm, Hamilton County, Tennessee. 1937.
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  Ben Shahn. Blind street musicians in West Memphis, Arkansas. October 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Baby from Mississippi parked in truck at FSA Camp, Merrill, Oregon. October, 1939.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Sign. Birmingham, Alabama. February 1937. World's highest standard of living. There's no way like the American Way.
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  Ben Shahn. Family of destitute Ozark. Arkansas. October 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, "It's tough but life's tough anyway you take it" August, 1936.
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  Arthur Rothstein. The family of a migratory fruit worker from Tennessee now camped in a field near the packing house at Winter Haven, Florida. January 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying “I have worked hard all my life and all I have now is my broken body.” June, 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Unable to get work on Work Projects Administration and refused county relief in county of fifteen years residence because of temporary residence in another county after his illness. June, 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Young Oklahoma mother, age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, California.
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  Dorothea Lange. U.S. 54, north of El Paso, Texas. One of the westward routes of the migrants. June 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all their earthly belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas, May 1937. There is no image matching the code.
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  Dorothea Lange. Young family, penniless, hitch-hiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, 24, and the mother, 17, came from West Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers. November 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. A hitch-hiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The father repairs sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc. He is leaving Macon, where a license is required for such work ($25) and heading back for Alabama. July 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on the relief “because he once lived there.” February 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's “Studies on IWW”. December 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Cotton picker, came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938, Firebaugh, California. February 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Georgia road sign warning vagrants. 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Mother and baby of family on the road, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. September 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Toward Los Angeles, California. March 1937.

Wall 17 (Field Workers)

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  Dorothea Lange. Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. National Advertising Campaign sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers. March 1937.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Notice to celery workers. Sanford, Florida. January 1937.
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  Carl Mydans. Day laborer and wife. Migrants. “Damned if we'll work for what they pay folks hereabouts.” Crittendon County, Arkansas. Cotton workers on the road with all they possess in the world. May 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Transplanting sweet potato plants, feet and hands. 1939 July
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  Dorothea Lange. A former tenant farmer from Texas, now working in California as a pea picker. Nipoma, California. March 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Arkansas mother come to California for a new start with the husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. November 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Migrant potato pickers, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. September 1939.
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  Russell Lee. Labor contractors crew picking peas. Nampa, Idaho. June, 1941. (Pea pickers wages in 1939 1 cent per lb. Hamper holds 28 lbs.)
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  Dorothea Lange. Poverty in the Land of Plenty. Migrant Pea Pickers. Lined up for weighing of filled hampers. California, 1938.

Wall 18 (Tents)

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  Carl Mydans. A street of tents in the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas. February 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. ("What Hurts Business Hurts Me" sign and tents). Squatter camp on the flat where families live during the orange picking season. Near Porterville, California. February, 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. A grandmother washing clothes in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. April, 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32. Father is a native Californian. March 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Eighteen-year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant. March, 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32. February, 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California. August, 1936.
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  Russell Lee. Tubercular wife and daughter of agricultural day laborer. She had lost six of her eight children and the remaining two were pitifully thin. The mother said that she had tuberculosis because she had always gone back to the fields to work within two or three days after her children were born. Shack home is on Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma. June 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Member Southern Tenant Farmer's Union at time of strike of sharecroppers. Memphis, Tennessee. In Union Hall. Undated.
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  Dorothea Lange. Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California. March, 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in the American River Camp near Sacramento, California. November 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, December 1935.

Wall 19 (Tents)

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  Dorothea Lange. Drought refugees, California. February 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern Migrant Camp, California. (FSA Camp). November 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Woman in pea picker's camp, California. “I have seen our corn dry up and blow over the fence back there in Oklahoma.” March 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Young migrant mother with 6-week-old baby in a labor contractor's camp, near Westley, California. The baby was born in a hospital with the aid of FSA Medical and (Aid1) Association for Migratory Workers. “I try to keep him eatin' and sleepin' regular like I got him out of the hospital.” April, 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Brawley, Imperial Valley (California), in FSA Migratory Labor Camp. Family father, mother and eleven children originally from Mangrum Oklahoma. February, 1939·
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  Dorothea Lange. Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the Government Camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for Migrants, California. November, 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Grandmother of 22 children, from a farm in Oklahoma, 80 years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. “If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you—all you've got to live with.” November 1936.

Wall 20 (Old Age)

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  Dorothea Lange. White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1932.
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  Dorothea Lange. “Old age” near Washington, Pennsylvania. July 1936.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. 52102-0 Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one-year-old mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, was born and reared in Orange County, North Carolina, and had lived here since her marriage sixty-nine years ago. This is the road leading off from left of Route 54 about four miles west of Carboro. Orange County, North Carolina. September 1939. Not digitized, but [2] and [3]
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  Russell Lee. Hands of Mrs. Ostermeyer, wife of a homesteader, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa. December 1936.
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  Russell Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ostermeyer, homesteaders, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa. December 1936.

Wall 21 (Old Age)

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  Russell Lee. Exhausted flood refugee resting. Sikeston, Missouri. February 1937.
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  Jack Delano. Aged couple at an auction in East Albany, Vermont, August 1941.
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  Jack Delano. Mrs. Carrie E. Loadwick, life-long resident of area being taken over by the Army, who is moving to the town of Adams. Leraysville, New York. August 1941.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Fennel Corbin of Corbin Hollow, Virginia. October 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. This man was born a slave in Greene County, Georgia. July 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Annie Moore Schwein, born a slave in Corpus Christi, South Texas. August 1936.
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  Jack Delano. Hands of Mr. Henry Brooks, Parks Ferry Road, Greene County, Georgia. May 1941.
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  Jack Delano. Old ex-slave on a farm near Greensboro, Alabama. May 1941.
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  Jack Delano. In the home of Steve Dino, Italian FSA client, near Canterbury, Connecticut. His mother sells hooked rugs to supplement their farm income. November 1940.

Wall 22 (Houses, etc.)

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  Russell Lee. Helping the plates at dinner on the grounds at all day community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico. June 1940.
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  Paul Carter. Tubercular mother and child, New York City, April 1936.
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  Arthur Rothstein. A physician cooperating with FSA medical health plan visits the home of a rehabilitation client. St. Charles County, Missouri. November 1939·
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  Dorothea Lange. Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished." November, 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. Home of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who moved on this land six years ago, built log house and buildings. Cut enough hay between the stumps to feed eight cows, three calves and two horses through the winter of 1938. Three hundred and fifteen dollar land-clearing loan. Priest River Peninsula, Bonner County, Idaho. October, 1939·
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  Dorothea Lange. Family living in tent and building the house around them. Near Klamath County, Oregon. August, 1939.

Wall 23 (Field Workers)

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  Dorothea Lange. Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce. Imperial Valley, California. March 1931.
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  Dorothea Lange. (Stoop Labor). Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California. June 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Migrant agricultural worker. Near Holtville, California. Waiting for the second pea crop, after the winter crop froze. February 1937.

Wall 24 (Unemployed)

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  Dorothea Lange. Sharecropper boy, Chesnee, South Carolina. June 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California. March, 1937.
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  John Vachon. Line of men waiting in alley outside City Mission. They are waiting for meal which will be served at 5:00 p.m. Dubuque, Iowa. April 1940.
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  Dorothea Lange. Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers. March, 1937.
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  Ben Shahn. Unemployed trappers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. October 1935.
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  Dorothea Lange. Former Texas tenant farmers displaced by power farming. May 1937.
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  Arthur Rothstein. Migrant field worker. Tulare Migrant Camp. Visalia, California. March 1940.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Mr. R.B. Whitley visiting in his general store. He is president of the bank and practically owns and runs the town. He is a big landowner, owns Whitley-Davis Farm and a cotton mill in Clayton. He said he cut down the trees and pulled up the stumps in that town of Wendell. Wake County, North Carolina. September 1939. The description doesn't match the image number. See the other picture.
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  Dorothea Lange. The day after election. Oakland, California. November 12, 1936.
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  Dorothea Lange. Father and son, idle American workmen near Bridgeton, New Jersey. July 1936.
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  Ben Shahn. A deputy with a gun on his hip during the September 1935 strike in Morgantown, West Virginia. September 1935.
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  Marion Post Wolcott. Spanish muskrat trappers drinking wine and playing "cache," a form of poker, in their camp in the marshes. Delacroix Island, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. January, 1941. And also [4]
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  Dorothea Lange. FSA Camp for migratory agricultural workers. Meeting of camp council. Farmsville, California. May, 1939.
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  Dorothea Lange. Sign during great cotton strike. Kern County, California. November 1938.

Wall 25 (Schools)

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  John Vachon. Playing “Cut that Pie” or “Fox and Geese” at noon recess at a rural school, Morton County, North Dakota. February 1940.
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  Russell Lee. Farm children playing on home-made merry-go-round, Williams County, North Dakota. November 1937. (Drought area).
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  Arthur Rothstein. School at Skyline Farms, Alabama. February 1937.
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  Russell Lee. African American mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper. Transylvania, Louisiana. January 1939.
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  Jack Delano. White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. The three-teacher school for African American children. October 1941.
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  Ben Shahn. Interior of Ozark School, Arkansas. September 1935.

Wall 26 (Couples)

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  Jack Delano. Negro preacher and his wife sitting under photos taken of them twenty years ago. They live in an old converted school house with two grand-children. The rest of their children have moved out of the country. Beard County, Georgia. April 1941.
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  Dorothea Lange. Migratory labor workers. Brawly, Imperial Valley, California. February 1939.
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  Jack Delano. Farmer and his wife who live on one of the hill farms east of Burlington, Vermont. August 1941.
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  Theo Jung. Prospective clients whose property has been optioned by the Government. Brown County, Indiana. October 1935.
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  Ben Shahn. Rehabilitation clients, Boone County, Arkansas. October 1935.
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  Jack Delano. Mr. and Mrs. Ovgen Arakelian, Armenian vegetable farmers in West Andover, Massachusetts. They have an eleven-acre farm and a son works in a blanket factory in Lowell to help support the family. January 1941.

Wall 27 (Heroic Women)

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  Russell Lee. Indian woman, wife of farmer, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. 12244 M-5
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  Dorothea Lange. Ex-slave with a long memory, Alabama, 1938.
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  Dorothea Lange. "This is a hard way to serve the Lord." Oklahoma drought refugee, California. March, 1937.
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  Russell Lee. Migrant man and wife camped near Sebastian, Texas. January, 1939. (Wife only, detail from)

Wall 28 (Heroic Women)

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  Arthur Rothstein. Minnie Knox, widow living with her daughter on farm. Garrett County, Maryland. December, 1937.
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  Dorothea Lange. Clouds. Utah, c. 1938
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  Dorothea Lange. An "Arkansas Hoosier" born in 1855. Conway, Arkansas. "My father was a Confederate soldier. He give his age a year older than it was to get into the army. After the war he bought 280 acres from the railroad and cleared it. We never had a mortgage on it. In 1920 the land was sold, the money divided. Now, none of my children own their land. It's all done gone, but it raised my family. I've done my duty—I feel like I have. I've raised twelve children." June, 1938.

Wall 29 (Heroic Women)

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  Jack Delano. Daughter of Mr. Buck Grant, preacher and FSA borrower. Near Union Point, Greene County, Georgia. June, 1941.

Wall 30 (Heroic Women)

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  Dorothea Lange. Young child, long hair, near Casa Grande, Arizona, 1940

Over door between Walls 29 and 30

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  U.S. Department of Agriculture. Planted field. March 1940.