Title

Purchasing farm under Bankhead-Jones Act, near Stockton, California, November 17, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Near Stockton, California. November 17, 1938. One of six successful applicants out of seventy-five. Purchasing farm under Bankhead Jones Act. "When a feller is in for himself, if he makes it, it's his. If he don't make it, it's his fault alone." (Tenant Purchase).

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_219

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,6Mb (1,7Mb) / 16,5in x 12,6in / 4960 x 3780 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport animal California countryside agriculture people male library job man men government animals farming horses horse economics country law guy occupation traditional photography OFFICIAL rustic farmer plough location century profession assisting assistance ownership thirties concept depression negative recession typical B&W owner Library of Congress horse-drawn United States of America Funding black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm worker 20th century farmworker Great Depression rural American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer farming methods ploughman rural life TGN photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library 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 Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935