Title

Cotton workers, outskirts of Firebaugh, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Outskirts of Firebaugh. West side of San Joaquin Valley, California. Six families with twenty-two children live in this house. Cotton workers: "He's good (the boss). He lets us live here without paying rent.".

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_331

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

52,3Mb (1,9Mb) / 16,5in x 12,3in / 4960 x 3686 (300dpi)

Keywords

California countryside building buildings agriculture female women woman people male library job man men farming house houses economics country housing guy occupation valley geography photography overcrowding rustic poor poverty location century profession overcrowded thirties concept depression negative recession cotton B&W Library of Congress United States of America San Joaquin Valley black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression rural cotton pickers American America USA agricultural worker cotton picking farm labourer geographical feature rural life TGN photograph cotton picker united states Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers 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