Workwear Collection (#3)

Migrant shed worker, Northeast Florida, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant shed worker. Northeast Florida

Peach pickers, Muscella, Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia

Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils...off of cotton plants, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia. [Sack made from hog feed bag]

Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils...off of cotton plants, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia

Georgia peach pickers eating, Muscella, Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Georgia peach pickers eating. Muscella, Georgia

Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, , 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, who formerly obtained a livelihood from the lumber industry

Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, , 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, who formerly obtained a livelihood from the lumber industry

J.M. Rees tells his story of violence in Arkansas, Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
J.M. Rees tells his story of violence in Arkansas. Hill House, Mississippi

An evicted Arkansas sharecropper now settled at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
An evicted Arkansas sharecropper now settled at Hill House, Mississippi. [J.M. Rees?]

Turpentine worker, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine worker. Georgia

Cradling wheat near Sperryville, Virginia. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cradling wheat near Sperryville, Virginia. A hand binder follows the mower. These men had never heard of a combine harvester. "Sure would like to see that." Their father used a reap hook

White laborer of the Mississippi Delta, Issaquena County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
White laborer of the Mississippi Delta. Issaquena County, Mississippi

Men cradling wheat in eastern Virginia near Sperryville, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Men cradling wheat in eastern Virginia near Sperryville

West Texas farmer prepares to sow millet, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
West Texas farmer prepares to sow millet

Farm hands - threshing day near Durham, North Carolina, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm hands. Threshing day near Durham, North Carolina

Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, Alabama

Tractor driver on cotton farm near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor driver on cotton farm near Memphis, Texas

A tractor driver on a Texas cotton farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A tractor driver on a Texas cotton farm. He has a wife and two young children. The use of low paid day labor instead of tenant farmers is the rule

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

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

Saturday afternoon in front of the courthouse, Greenville [i.e. Greeneville], Tennessee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Saturday afternoon in front of the courthouse. Greenville [i.e. Greeneville], Tennessee

Saturday afternoon in front of the courthouse, Greenville [i.e. Greeneville], Tennessee, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Saturday afternoon in front of the courthouse. Greenville [i.e. Greeneville], Tennessee. [War memorial erected in memory of the Union soldiers who enlisted in the Union Army from Greene County

Plough boy sitting on fence after a day's work, Eutaw, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plough boy sitting on fence after a day's work. Eutaw, Alabama

Cradling wheat near Christianburg, Virginia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cradling wheat near Christianburg, Virginia

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

Father and son, idle American workman, near Bridgton, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Father and son, idle American workman, near Bridgton, New Jersey

Homesteader, farmer, who has been working on the community farm since 1934, Hightstown, NJ, 1936
Homesteader, farmer, who has been working on the community farm since 1934. Hightstown, New Jersey

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

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Small town - Rogers, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rogers, Arkansas. Small town. [Photographer's sign: Developing, Printing, Enlarging - Masingill Studio']

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Miner's home, company-owned, Blue Blaze Coal Company, Consumers, near Price, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Miner's home, company-owned. Blue Blaze Coal Company. Consumers, near Price, Utah

Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) cooperative farm, Lake Dick, Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state

Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99. 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99

White section gang near King City, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
White section gang near King City, California. Before the depression this work was done entirely by Mexican labor

Resettled at Bosque Farms project - family of four from Taos Junction, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled at Bosque Farms project. Family of four from Taos Junction shows temporary dwelling

From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri, eight years in California working in lemons "It's easy for us because we haven't got a bunch of kids to get drug around"

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Warehouse used as distributing office for FSA relief grants, Bakersfield, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families. Bakersfield, California

Rehabilitation family, near Visalia, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Visalia, California. Rehabilitation family. Farm operations changed from failure to success by following plan devised by Rural Rehabilitation supervisor

Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus... near Tifton, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus which they employ at seasonal peaks

South Georgia tobacco sharecropper in town for auction, Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecropper in town for auction. Note tobacco sheets in which he brought tobacco from the farm

Each farmer follows his tobacco in the warehouse to learn what price... Douglas, Georgia, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Each farmer follows his tobacco in the warehouse to learn what price it brings at auction. Douglas, Georgia

Former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 1937
A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker. Nipomo, California

Board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
These three men comprise the board of directors of the Mineral King Farm Association, Tulare County, California. They were elected by their own group to direct this farm unit

Ten families established by the FSA on the... Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton

Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California

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