Skip to main content

Oklahoman, refugee to California from depression, drought, and dust

Thumbnail for Oklahoman, refugee to California from depression, drought, and dust
View
@ Library of Congress

Lange, Dorothea

Description

Type:
Image
Created Date:
1935 June.
Rights:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/
View Original At:

From Collection

Miscellaneous Items in High Demand

Record Contributed By

Library of Congress

Keywords

  1. California
  2. Internal Migration
  3. Photographic Prints
  4. Shafter

Related Content

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32 Departure First rural rehabilitation colonists, northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska [Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, 1936] Colonist to Alaska from Minnesota San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil control station for registration in response to the Army's exclusion order No. 20--The evacuees will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Boy with calf is Pamento Benson. Raising it for beef. Has worked in mill 2 years. Mr. Benson said, "Just as soon as the boys get old enough to handle a plow, we go straight back to the farm. Factory is no place for boys." Next to Pamento is Ray Benson. "Helper in the mill" Next Clarence Rost, works in mill. Location: Chester, South Carolina. Refugees on levee, April 17, 1897 A Dassanech man tending his fields along the Omo River [Nicodemus Historic District, Nicodemus, Graham County, KS]. [Copy photograph of a broadside] "The sun rises in the west" written and produced by Southwest Theatre Unit "The nigger must go," and "The Chinese must go." The poor barbarians can't understand our civilized Republican form of government Ola self-help cooperative sawmill, Gem County, Idaho. October, 1939 Leland, Miss., in the Delta area. The Rex theatre for Negro people Memphis, Tenn. June, 1937. Negro cotton hoers, waiting in line at the State Employment Service office Bonner County, Idaho. October, 1939. Stump land farmers making a new start in the Priest River Valley Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina, July, 1939. White and Negro sharecroppers Memphis, Tenn. A fish restaurant for Negroes in the section of the city where cotton hoers are recruited Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar
Download JSON