Lange Collection (#4)

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

MIGRANT WORKER, 1937. A Mexican migrant worker thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants that are capped with wax paper and spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold

IDAHO: FARMER, 1939. A farmer and son cleared thirty acres of raw stump land in three years at Bonner County, Idaho. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

IDAHO: FARM, 1939. A farm for sale in Boundary County, Idaho with sandy soil which has led to unsuccessful clearing by four families that occupied the land since 1936

CHILD LABOR, 1939. An eleven-year-old migrant boy and his grandmother work side by side picking hops during the summer with temperatures reaching 105 degrees and above in Polk County

FARM WOMAN, 1939. A farmers wife and member of the congregation of Wheeleys church in Gordonton, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

FARM GIRL, 1938. An undernourished cotton pickers child listening to speeches of organizers at a cotton strike meeting to raise wages in Kern County, California

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. A family in the doorway of a tent in a camp for migrant workers in Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1939

MIGRANT FARMER, 1935. A migrant family from Texas traveling to Oregon through California on U.S. Highway 99. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, March 1935

MIGRANT BABY, 1939. A baby from Mississippi parked in a truck at a camp for migrant workers in Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1938. An African American family being moved from Arkansas to the Mississippi Delta by a Caucasian tenant farmer on Mississippi U.S. Highway No. 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale

IRRIGATION, 1939. A tenant farmer irrigating his small corn field with buckets of water in Grays Harbor County, Washington State. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

MIGRANT WORKER, 1936. A young girl harvesting cherries with local families, near Millville, New Jersey. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1936

MIGRANT CHILD, 1936. A young cotton picker holding a blanket at a camp for migrant workers in Kern County, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, November 1936

TOBACCO FLOWER. A single tobacco flower on a tobacco farm in Shoofly, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

LOG CABIN, 1939. Interior of a farmers two-room log home with alfalfa seed stored in the corner, Boundary County, Idaho. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

The Casa Grande Project, a large-scale cooperative farm run by 62 families from various states
ARIZONA: FARM, 1938. The Casa Grande Project, a large-scale cooperative farm run by 62 families from various states, who divide the profits in Pinal County, Arizona

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. A woman in the doorway of a tent at a camp for migrant workers in Klamath County, Merrill, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

SERVICE STATION, 1939. Road signs at a service station on U. S. Highway 99 in Josephine County
SERVICE STATION, 1939. Road signs at a service station on U.S. Highway 99 in Josephine County, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. A newly completed migrant worker camp by the Farm Security Administration with a garbage disposal area, street lights, street curbing, water tank

ROADSIDE SIGN, 1939. A sign off U. S. Highway 99 in Josephine County, Oregon, advertising
ROADSIDE SIGN, 1939. A sign off U.S. Highway 99 in Josephine County, Oregon, advertising migrant jobs at Lathrops Hop & Berry Fields. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

FARM FAMILY, 1939. A farmer with his family in the cut-over land in Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. Lighthearted children in the doorway of a tent at a camp for migrant workers in Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. A nurse from the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association attends a sick migrant woman while awaiting a doctor in a camp for migrant workers in Tulare County

TOBACCO FARM, 1939. A hillside farmhouse, outbuildings and tobacco field with erosion in Person County, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

MIGRANT WORKER, 1936. A drought refugee from Polk, Missouri awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, November 1936

FARMLAND, 1939. A fence dividing two farms; one side uncleared and the other side cleared with strawberry plants growing in Thurston, Washington State. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

MIGRANT WOMAN, 1939. A grandmother living with her family on a farm in Malheur County, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

TRAVELING DOCTOR, 1939. A nurse at a camp for migrant workers introduces a doctor to a mother with a sick baby inside a shack in Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

MIGRANT CAMP, 1936. The daughter of a migrant Tennessee coal miner living in the American River Camp near Sacramento, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, November 1936

CENTRAL MARKET, 1936. A woman shopping at the Central Market in Washington, D. C
CENTRAL MARKET, 1936. A woman shopping at the Central Market in Washington, D.C. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June-July 1936

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1939. A mother and five children living in a shacktown community with residents mostly from Kansas and Missouri in Yakima Valley, Washington State

FARM CABIN, 1939. Interior of a new one-room cabin in Bonner County, Idaho with plants from the farmers home in Montana. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

MIGRANT CAMP, 1939. Children of migrant workers residing in Ramblers Park, after living on the road for three years, Yakima Valley, Washington State. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

RURAL HIGHWAY, 1939. Migrant workers traveling on U. S. Highway 99 between Imperial
RURAL HIGHWAY, 1939. Migrant workers traveling on U.S. Highway 99 between Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys in Kern County, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1939

IDAHO: FARMER, 1939. A farmer from Nebraska clearing stump land for planting crops the following year at Bonner County, Idaho. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

HIGHWAY BILLBOARD, 1937. National billboard advertising campaign sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers on U.S. Highway 99 in California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, March 1937

LOUISIANA: CABIN, 1937. A workers cabin on a sugarcane plantation at Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana. Photographed by Dorothea Lange, July 1937

SHARECROPPER, 1939. A tobacco sharecropper with his family at the back of their farmhouse in Person County, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

SHARECROPPER, 1939. A tobacco sharecropper with his baby seated on the front porch in Person County, North Carolina. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, July 1939

MIGRANT HOUSING, 1937. An open irrigation ditch at a Mexican migrant worker camp in Imperial Valley, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, March 1937

SUGAR FACTORY, 1939. The entrance to Amalgamated Sugar Company at the opening of the second beet season in Nyssa, Oregon. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, October 1939

DATE PALM, 1937. Date palm trees in Coachella Valley, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1937

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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.