Economics Collection (#5)

Cotton hoers leaving the fields for lunch, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton hoers leaving the fields for lunch. Farmer's daughter and laborers, whites and blacks. Georgia

Wife of Mississippi sharecropper, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife of Mississippi sharecropper

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests

Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Company housing for cotton workers near Corcoran, California

Center Market, Washington, D.C. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Center Market. Washington, D.C

Contour plowing on mechanized farms, Childress County, Texas Panhandle, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Contour plowing on mechanized farms. Childress County, Texas Panhandle, Texas

Cotton field hand sitting on her porch on Sunday afternoon, near Blytheville, Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton field hand sitting on her porch on Sunday afternoon. Near Blytheville, Arkansas

Turpentine still in the Piney Woods near Valdosta, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine still in the Piney Woods near Valdosta, Georgia

Refugee family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, near Holtville, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugee family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped in the brush in a river bottom near Holtville, California

Migratory family, Route 70, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona

Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tom Collins, manager of Kern County migrant camp, California

Hoe culture in the South, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hoe culture in the South. Mississippi

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble, looking for work... CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City, scale of farm operations in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City, scale of farm operations in California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California

Rural Rehabilitation Administration client, Hayward, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural Rehabilitation Administration client. Hayward, California

Migrants tents...along the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Fresno, California. Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific. [Sign: Railroad Crossing']

Migrants tents...along the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific [railroad]. Near Fresno, California

Horse and wagon is still a common means of transportation... Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Horse and wagon is still a common means of transportation. Family coming from town on a Saturday afternoon. Southeast Missouri Farms

Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers, Lindsay, Tulare County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. Tulare County

Migrants winter quarters, Farmersville, Tulare County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmersville, Tulare County. Migrants winter quarters

Between Laton and Fowler, central San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Between Laton and Fowler, central San Joaquin Valley, California. One man-one horse methods are rare in California

Sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, near Hartsville, South Carolina, 1938
Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field

News of the surrender of Canton... San Francisco, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
News of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. San Francisco, California. Chinatown

Emptying cotton after weighing, small cotton farm, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Emptying cotton after weighing. Small cotton farm. Kern County, California

Cantaloupe field, desert agriculture on the Mexican border, Imperial Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cantaloupe field, desert agriculture on the Mexican border. Large-scale corporation farming. Imperial Valley, California

Tractor on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor on Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Texas tenant farmers who have been displaced from their land by tractor farming, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas tenant farmers who have been displaced from their land by tractor farming

Tenant family...who are rural rehabilitation clients, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients of the Farm Security Administration. Greene County, Georgia

Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia

Naval stores processing plant under construction, Near Valdosta, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Naval stores processing plant under construction. This type of plant (first one at Jacksonville, Florida, second at Valdosta, Georgia) will probably revolutionize the turpentine industry; in future

Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins at the Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. [Porches with mosquito screens]

Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Screen windows and porches are uncommon in cotton cabins

Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta

The Delta landscape is dotted with cotton cabins... Washington County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Delta landscape is dotted with cotton cabins for sharecroppers. Washington County, Mississippi

Farmers sacking grasshopper bait, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers sacking grasshopper bait. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Scene in Tombstone, Arizona, once a thriving mining town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Scene in Tombstone, Arizona. Once a thriving mining town

Scene in Tombstone, Arizona, once a thriving mining town, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Scene in Tombstone, Arizona, once a thriving mining town

Unsanitary privy in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Unsanitary privy in potato pickers camp near Shafter, California

Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California

Children of Oklahoma migrants, near Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma migrants in agricultural workers camp near Calipatria, California

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields, Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California, 1937
Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936

Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California

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