Title

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor.

Date

1937

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A49_240

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

172,4Mb (6,3Mb) / 29,6in x 22,6in / 8870 x 6792 (300dpi)

Keywords

California library economics country washing laundry migration migrating photography tent tents location century camp thirties concept depression negative recession washing line B&W Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression shantytown American America USA displacement TGN refugee camp photograph shanty town united states Hooverville Congressional Library Tent City Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative