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Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to expel farm people by 1937, adding to the refugees to the west coast. There are many vacant cabins. Near England, Arkansas

Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to expel farm people by 1937, adding to the refugees to the west coast. There are many vacant cabins. Near England, Arkansas

Three refugees from the 1937 flood in their tent of the camp in Marianna, Arkansas

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17, 1936, twenty-three car loads and truck loads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed throught that station entering California up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton

Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to expel farm people by 1937, adding to the refugees to the west coast. There are many vacant cabins. Near England, Arkansas

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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Film copy on SIS roll 27, frame 1637.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Dorothea Lange contracted polio as a young girl. She learned professional photography skills while working in New York in her early 20s, and then landed in San Francisco where she ran a portrait business catering to the city's wealthy elite. Her second husband, Paul Taylor, helped her to get out into the fields with the destitute pickers, who she'd treat like portrait subjects with empathy and identification with her subjects. When the Depression hit, she captured crowded breadlines. In the late 1930s Dorothea Lange had been hired by the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration - to photograph Dust Bowl refugees escaped into California from the Midwest and her images went far beyond bureaucratic reportage. A skilled portraitist, Lange might not have been able to change government policies, but her images for the FSA were picked up by newspapers across the country. John Steinbeck used them for inspiration in his 1939 Dust Bowl tale "The Grapes of Wrath."

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arkansas lonoke county england housing sharecroppers nitrate negatives lot 1662 dorothea lange photo arkansas bottoms farm people west coast ultra high resolution high resolution great depression farm security administration united states history cabin library of congress
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01/01/1938
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Dorothea Lange, FSA, HD

Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.
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arkansas
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Lot 1662, Farm People, Lonoke County

Husband and wife, farmers, Chicot Farms, Arkansas

083250.037 - Table Rock Lake.328.4

The Sopers have a large family. The oldest child is 17. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 72

Gjenreisning. Et bolighus bygges i Honningsvåg. 1946/47.

Familjeporträtt, nio personer. / Länsmuseet Gävleborg

081040.194 - Table Rock Lake.408.2

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, thirteen years ago. Migrations include ranch land in Texas, cotton and wheat in Texas, cotton and timber in New Mexico, peas and potatoes in Idaho, wheat in Colorado, hops and apples in Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton in Arizona. He wants to buy a little place in Idaho

Exterior. U.S. Post Office and Court House in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Bostadshus och affärsbyggnader. Sundsbrogatan 12, Askersund. juli - december 1956.

Hightstown, New Jersey. On this project some of the homesteaders will work on the cooperative farm, some in the cooperative factory. This group represents wives and children of the farm group. This is a Jewish community background

"Östses" i Åsveden. Maria Öst står på bron.

Mayflower, AR, May 17, 2014 – A Team Rubicon volunteer removes debris from a home and property on Plantation Drive after the home was destroyed by a tornado on April 27. FEMA supports Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) as they help survivors recover from natural disasters. Photo by Christopher Mardorf / FEMA

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arkansas lonoke county england housing sharecroppers nitrate negatives lot 1662 dorothea lange photo arkansas bottoms farm people west coast ultra high resolution high resolution great depression farm security administration united states history cabin library of congress