Title

Migrant agricultural worker's family, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A48_165

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Rights managed

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150,3Mb (5,8Mb) / 27,3in x 21,4in / 8177 x 6425 (300dpi)

Keywords

California countryside female women woman people child children library family economics infant baby babies country shelter migration migrating mother lighting refuge tired photography infancy rustic poor poverty tent tents motherhood lamp location century camp worry worried exhaustion parenting exhausted thirties concept depression negative recession weary B&W displaced destitution Library of Congress migrant mum iconic refugee United States of America destitute black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression refugees shantytown rural migrants American America USA displacement rural life TGN Thompson refugee camp displaced people photograph portrait paraffin lamp shanty town united states Christie Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative displaced person displaced persons forced migrant forced migrants Florence Owens Thompson Florence Owens Florence Leona Christie Florence Leona