Title

Migratory family from Louisiana on Works Progress Administration (WPA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month.

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A50_436

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

147,8Mb (3,8Mb) / 28,4in x 20,2in / 8529 x 6055 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation California countryside people car cars automobile work employment politics economics worker country housing migration migrating photography accommodation rustic political location century thirties caravan concept depression negative recession B&W migrant road Transport United States of America Motor Car black & white black and white B W 1930s migrant worker WPA 20th century Great Depression rural workers migrant workers migrants American America USA New Deal rural life TGN photograph united states Regionalism 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 nitrate negative Work Projects Administration Works Progress Administration