Lange Collection (#3)

MEMPHIS: UNEMPLOYED, 1938. Part of the daily lineup of unemployed men waiting outside the office of the State Employment Service in Memphis, Tennessee. Photographed by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

DROUGHT REFUGEES, 1937. A destitute Missouri family of five with no money, a sick baby, and a broken down automobile alongside U.S. Highway 99 in San Joaquin County, California

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1939. Migrant workers picking carrots for 14 cents per crate of 48 bunches, in Imperial Valley, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1939

MIGRANT WORKER, 1939. Migrant woman from Arkansas living in a contractors camp near Westley, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, April 1939

FOURTH OF JULY, 1939. A group of men hanging out at a small fuel filling station with some of the men wearing the local teams baseball uniforms on the Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1937. A family hitchhiking along the highway in Macon, Georgia and heading back to their home state of Alabama where the father can repair sewing machines

IRRIGATION PUMP, 1938. A pumping plant for irrigation powered by a natural gas engine in Tulare County, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, November 1938

IDAHO: FARM, 1939. A farm with remaining stumps after clearing the land for six years in Bonner County, Idaho. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, 1938. Mexicans entering the United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1938. A migrant worker with his family camping on the outskirts of Perrytown, Texas. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

SHARECROPPER, 1939. A sharecropper and his children returning home after stringing and putting up tobacco leaves in Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

MIGRANT CAMP, 1935. An ex-tenant farmer from Texas with his family in a camp for migrant workers during peach harvest in Marysville, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, September 1935

MIGRANT WORKER, 1937. An ex-tenant farmer sitting on the ground of a farm near Holtville, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1937

DRINKING WATER, 1939. A barrel of drinking water for when the farm irrigation water is shut off in mid October, in Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1939. A migrant family living in a rural shack community on outskirts of town, Near Klamath Falls, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, September 1939

FARM FAMILY, 1939. A family gathering debris, roots and chunks from the field to the stump pile for burning in Thurston County, Michigan Hill, Washington State

FOOD STAND, 1939. A migrant hop picker and her two children at the window of a food stand after payday in Josephine County, near Grants Pass, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

DEPUTY SHERIFF, 1939. A deputy sheriff stationed at the paymasters window for migrant workers on a large hop farm in Josephine County, near Grants Pass, Oregon

FARMHOUSE, 1939. An African American sharecroppers farmhouse in Person County, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

SHARECROPPER, 1939. The wife and child of a tobacco sharecropper inside their farm home in Person County, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1939. An ex-tenant farmer from Oklahoma with his wife and ten children standing in front of their tent at an emergency migrant camp for drought refugees in Brawley, Imperial Valley

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. An ex-tenant farmer from Oklahoma with four of his eleven children in an emergency migrant camp for drought refugees in Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

COMMERCIAL FARMING, 1939. A large scale carrot farm in Imperial Valley, California using gang laborers and migrant workers including children from the southwest to pull, clean

GEORGIA: TOBACCO, 1938. An African American sharecropper sitting on the porch sorting tobacco leaves near Douglas, Georgia. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1938

MIGRANT WORKER, 1938. A young African American wife cooking breakfast roadside on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1938. Two African American migrant cotton choppers in Memphis, Tennessee hoping for plantation work. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

DROUGHT REFUGEE, 1936. Drought refugees traveling on U. S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California
DROUGHT REFUGEE, 1936. Drought refugees traveling on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936

DUST BOWL, 1935. A farmer in the middle of a dust storm on his farm in Mills, New Mexico. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, April 1935

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. A daughter and son of an ex-tenant farmer from Oklahoma living in an emergency camp for migrant workers in Imperial Valley, Calipatria, California

COMMERCIAL FARMING, 1939. A large scale lettuce farm in Salinas Valley, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1939

MIGRANT AUTOMOBILE, 1936. An automobile in New Mexicio, carrying the belongings of a homeless migrant family from Iowa. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1936

DUST BOWL, 1938. A farm eroded by dust storms as a result of overgrazing, north of Dalhart, Texas. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1936. Migrant workers from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1936

COTTON HOERS, 1937. A group of migrant cotton hoers walking to work on a cotton plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June-July 1937

COTTON PICKER, 1937. A migrant boy with a sack of boll weevils that he picked off of cotton plants in Macon County, Georgia. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1937

COTTON PLANTATION, 1937. A crew 200 African American migrant workers brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton for one dollar a day, near Leland, Mississippi

TEXAS: HIGHWAY, 1938. U. S. Highway 54, one of the westward routes used by migrant workers
TEXAS: HIGHWAY, 1938. U.S. Highway 54, one of the westward routes used by migrant workers, north of El Paso, Texas. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

TEXAS: DUST BOWL, 1938. An abandoned farm in the Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

COTTON PLANTATION, 1937. The Touchberry Plantation using the check-row planting method which permits cross cultivation and eliminates as much as two thirds of the usual hand hoeing costs in Issaquena

MEMPHIS: UNEMPLOYED, 1938. Job applicants waiting outside the office of the State Employment Service in Memphis
MEMPHIS: UNEMPLOYED, 1938. Part of the daily lineup of unemployed men waiting outside the office of the State Employment Service in Memphis, Tennessee. Photographed by Dorothea Lange, June 1938

HOMELESS COUPLE, 1935. Dispossessed Arkansas farmers constructing a shelter on a garbage dump outside of Bakersfield, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1935

SHARECROPPER, 1939. A wife of a sharecropper standing in the kitchen doorway of her log house in North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

TEXAS: FARM WIFE, 1937. Wife of a Texas tenant farmer hoeing soil on rented farmland. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, May 1937

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1935. Filipino migrant workers cutting lettuce on a farm in Salinas, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1935

FARM BOY, 1937. Twelve year-old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1937

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1937. Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico working from seven in the morning until twelve noon for 35 cents in Coachella Valley, California

EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, 1937. Job applicants waiting outside the International Employment Agency on Howard Street in San Francisco, known as Skid Row, the district of the unemployed

CHILD LABOR, 1939. A young migrant bean picker in Marion County, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

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"Lange: Capturing the Essence of American Life in the 1930s" Dorothea Lange, a renowned photographer, documented the struggles and triumphs of everyday Americans during one of the most challenging periods in our nation's history. Her powerful images evoke a sense of empathy and understanding for those who endured hardships during the Great Depression. In Gordonton, North Carolina, Lange captured a poignant scene on a Sunday afternoon. A group of African American men find solace sitting on the porch of a country store while its owner's brother stands watchfully in the doorway. The kerosene pump on one side and gasoline pump on the other symbolize both necessity and aspiration. Moving to Lincoln Bench School, we witness young minds engrossed in their reading lessons. These school children from 1939 embody hope for brighter futures despite their circumstances. Lange's lens then takes us to Marion County, Oregon, where an unemployed lumberjack and his wife reside in a migrant workers camp during bean harvest season. The man bears his social security number tattooed on his arm—a stark reminder that even amidst struggle, identity matters. Traveling further south to Memphis, Texas brings us face-to-face with another aspect of America—its vibrant culture. Lange captures an iconic hotel sign that beckons travelers passing through this small town—a testament to resilience amid adversity. Beyond photography lies music as Moonglow by Valaida fills our ears—an enchanting melody transporting us into moments untouched by hardship or despair. Joachim Lange emerges as yet another figure worth mentioning—a name echoing through time whose contributions remain unknown but not forgotten. Bruges' Langerei canal presents itself adorned with a wooden lifting bridge—an architectural marvel connecting past and present generations along Belgium's waterways. A mule train from 1947 appears before us; its creator may be anonymous but reminds us that ordinary people can leave extraordinary imprints upon history. Carl Georg Lange's portrait reminds us of the individuals who shaped our world.