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"Migrating: A Journey Across Time and Terrain" Witness the awe-inspiring sight of Atlantic salmon leaping upstream in their annual migration

Background imageMigrating Collection: A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937

A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family of nine who are stranded and penniless in New Mexico

Background imageMigrating Collection: Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health

Background imageMigrating Collection: Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936

Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money

Background imageMigrating Collection: Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico

Background imageMigrating Collection: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: 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

Background imageMigrating Collection: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: 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

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageMigrating Collection: Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade

Background imageMigrating Collection: Man living on 'Scratch Hill' outside Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Man living on "Scratch Hill" outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "I'm going west because this country's through, there isn't anything here for anyone

Background imageMigrating Collection: Family walking on highway, five children, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family walking on highway, five children, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Background imageMigrating Collection: Car trouble on west side, Highway no33, San Joaquin Valley, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Car trouble on west side, Highway no33, San Joaquin Valley, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Car trouble on west side, Highway no. 33. In San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer, now with wife, he follows the fruit

Background imageMigrating Collection: Mexicans entering the United States, United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas, 1938

Mexicans entering the United States, United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexicans entering the United States. United States immigration station, El Paso, Texas

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrant agricultural labor family, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California, 1938

Migrant agricultural labor family, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms

Background imageMigrating Collection: Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in this group came from eight different states

Background imageMigrating Collection: On highway no. 1 of the 'OK' state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938

On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas

Background imageMigrating Collection: On highway no. 1 of the 'OK' state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938

On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1938
On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas

Background imageMigrating Collection: Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas, 1938

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage

Background imageMigrating Collection: Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop

Background imageMigrating Collection: Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi... 1937

Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi... 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle

Background imageMigrating Collection: Resettlement project located near Gainesville, Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resettlement project located near Gainesville, Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettlement project located near Gainesville, Georgia

Background imageMigrating Collection: Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageMigrating Collection: Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country, Northern Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country, Northern Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. Northern Florida

Background imageMigrating Collection: Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country, North Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country, North Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida

Background imageMigrating Collection: Camp of migratory fruit pickers, Farmington, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Camp of migratory fruit pickers, Farmington, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp of migratory fruit pickers. Farmington, California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker and family near Odessa, Texas

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant oil worker and wife near Odessa, Texas

Background imageMigrating Collection: Family camped on U.S. Highway 63, Cache County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family camped on U.S. Highway 63, Cache County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family camped on U.S. Highway 63. Cache County, Oklahoma

Background imageMigrating Collection: Slums of Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Slums of Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Slums of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley

Background imageMigrating Collection: A new home on wheels (father and son), Yuba County, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

A new home on wheels (father and son), Yuba County, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey

Background imageMigrating Collection: Play street for children, Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Play street for children, Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood

Background imageMigrating Collection: Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project - Jewish-American, 1936

Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project - Jewish-American, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project. Jewish-American. This man is already employed on the project as carpenter

Background imageMigrating Collection: Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma. Eight children in the family. Note the housing. Near Casa Grande project, Arizona

Background imageMigrating Collection: Background photo for Hightstown project, Bronx, New York, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Background photo for Hightstown project, Bronx, New York, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Bronx, New York. Background photo for Hightstown project. Many of the future Hightstown settlers are now living in the Bronx district. This is the street on which Mr

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrants tents...the right of way of the Southern Pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939

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

Background imageMigrating Collection: Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939
Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents a week. California. [Signs: Garretts snuff, Model smoking tobacco, Eastside beer]

Background imageMigrating Collection: Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp, Calipatria, Imperial County, 1939
Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents per week. Calipatria, Imperial County

Background imageMigrating Collection: One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the roads leading into Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Stranded in southern California, , 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Stranded in southern California, , 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stranded in southern California. Belongings of Oklahoma drought refugees camped alongside the road

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migratory labor camp during pea harvest, FSA, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Migratory labor camp during pea harvest, FSA, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA). Migratory labor camp during pea harvest. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch... near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch... near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939
Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers camps in Imperial Valley and elsewhere have been much improved this year largely because of influence of Farm Security

Background imageMigrating Collection: One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939

One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Child welfare program, Resettlement Administration Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935

Child welfare program, Resettlement Administration Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935
Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part of the child welfare program at the Resettlement Administration camp. California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Utility unit and camp sites, Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Utility unit and camp sites, Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Marysville camp for migrants. Resettlement Administration. Shows utility unit and camp sites (toilets, showers, laundry). California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma, first occupants of Westley camp, California, 1939

Migrant family from Oklahoma, first occupants of Westley camp, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma, first occupants of Westley camp. California

Background imageMigrating Collection: Family...from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car... Arizona, 1937

Family...from Fort Smith, Arkansas, trying to repair their car... Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to try to find work in the California harvests. Between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona




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"Migrating: A Journey Across Time and Terrain" Witness the awe-inspiring sight of Atlantic salmon leaping upstream in their annual migration, defying the powerful currents of River Tyne in Hexham, Northumberland. Behold the majestic Bison below the towering peaks of Grand Teton Mountains, as they embark on their epic migratory journey through rugged landscapes. Explore a world from centuries ago with a glimpse into a 1520 map that unravels ancient mysteries and showcases how our understanding of geography has evolved over time. Step back even further into history with Strabo's map of the world, offering insights into how early civilizations perceived and navigated our vast planet. Experience nature's grand spectacle as wildebeest courageously cross Mara River during their annual migration in Masai Mara, Kenya – an extraordinary display of survival instincts. Marvel at the synchronized flight patterns of snow geese flocking together in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge – a breathtaking symphony in motion. Dive into the fascinating realm of science with neural stem cell culture – where cells migrate and transform to unlock potential treatments for neurological disorders. Follow Chinook salmon as they leap against cascading falls during their arduous migration to spawning areas in Pacific Northwest - a testament to resilience and determination. Observe Montagus Harrier male gracefully migrating through Caucasus Mountains in Georgia - showcasing nature's mastery amidst stunning landscapes. Transport yourself to Wild West times when covered wagons traversed vast plains, carrying pioneers seeking new horizons amidst untamed territories brimming with possibilities. Explore Africa's enchanting Masai Mara Game Reserve where Plains Zebra roam freely alongside their adorable calves - witnessing generations continue age-old migrations across sweeping savannahs. Imagine an otherworldly encounter as dinosaurs pass by an enigmatic flying saucer lodged deep into the ground.