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A mother in California who with her husband and her two children will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. This family had lost a two-year-old baby during the winter as a result of exposure. Photo by Dorothea Lange, March 1937
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This image is also known as “Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
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Son of sharecropper family at work in the cotton near Chesnee, South Carolina; photo by Dorothea Lange, June 1937
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Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia; photo by Resettlement Administration photographer Dorothea Lange, July 1937
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Wife of a migratory laborer with three children. Near Childress, Texas. Nettie Featherston; photo by Dorothea Lange, June 1938. “I just prayed and prayed and prayed all the time that God would take care of us and not let my children starve…”
Nettie Featherston and her family were trying to get to California when they ran out of money in Carey, Texas, in 1937. A local cotton grower took pity on the family and hired them to harvest his cotton. They were living in a small shack near Childress when photographer Dorothea Lange drove up, talked with Nettie and took photos of her. Lange recorded the desperation in her face and in her voice: “If you die, you’re dead – that’s all.” Nettie eventually moved to Lubbock, Texas, and never made it to California although several in her family did. (Brief bio and portion of oral history)
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Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One of Chris Adolph’s younger children. Farm Security Administration Rehabilitation clients, Photographed in August 1939 by Farm Security Administration documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.
Dust, Drought, and Depression #2 provides more information on this young girl, Lois Adolf, and the impact of the Great Depression on her family.
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“Mississippi Delta Negro children;” photo by Resettlement Administration photographer Dorothea Lange, July 1936, in Mississippi
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Southern San Joaquin Valley, California; photo by Resettlement Administration photographer Dorothea Lange, November 1936. Workers receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds.
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1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California; By Resettlement Administration photographer Dorothea Lange; November 1936;
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“Their great patched sails holding the evening light.” Three men sitting at a cafe table watching incoming fishing boats in the evening. From “A Christmas at Café Spaander” by Edward Penfield, author and illustrator, Scribner’s magazine, 32: 654 (Nov. 1902). Library of Congress image