Title

On the plains west of Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy. Now pick bolls to make fifty cents to one dollar a day. We can't work every day or maybe we could get by." Rent for house without water or sanitation -six dollars per month. Plan next to pick fruit. "They say if you come to California, you always come back, but I'm willing to leave it.".

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_297

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

67,1Mb (1,8Mb) / 15,8in x 16,5in / 4728 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors California countryside building buildings agriculture drink wood people child children library farming timber house houses economics country play playing housing photography cabin wooden rustic poor poverty plain farmland location century SHACK milk thirties simple concept visual depression negative recession B&W Library of Congress milk churn United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression rural plains American America USA rural life TGN outside photograph united states Regionalism Congressional Library housing conditions milk churns 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