Title

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A47_462

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

174,7Mb (6,1Mb) / 29,6in x 22,9in / 8889 x 6870 (300dpi)

Keywords

California building buildings agriculture female wood women woman people child children library work job farming timber house houses family vegetables vegetable garden gardens economics country housing occupation land mother photography accommodation wooden motherhood location century profession parenting thirties playpen childcare homestead concept depression negative recession B&W multitasking Library of Congress multi-tasking vegetable garden mum Working Class United States of America child care black & white black and white B W working-class 1930s farm hand farmhand farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression self-sufficient American America USA smallholding agricultural worker farm labourer social class TGN women at work working photograph united states Congressional Library Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell self-sufficiency Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative El Monte subsistence