Title

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff..., Napa Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's "Studies on IWW".

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_259

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

67,2Mb (2,0Mb) / 15,8in x 16,5in / 4733 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel California road people male library man men walking economics country guy migration migrating photography poor poverty location century thirties travellers traveller concept depression negative recession bundle B&W homeless homelessness Library of Congress hobo migrant United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century belongings Great Depression possessions American America USA itinerant TGN photograph united states 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 bindle bindle stiff bindlestiff