Title

Drought refugee..., Yakima Valley, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve.".

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_465

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,8Mb (1,7Mb) / 12,6in x 16,5in / 3788 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather exterior outdoors countryside harvest crop crops agriculture field fields people male library work job man men politics economics country climate guy occupation drought Washington refuge photography rustic farmer poor poverty harvesting political settlement farmland location century profession thirties concept depression negative recession B&W Library of Congress torn refugee United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s WPA 20th century Great Depression landowner refugees Yakima Valley rural American America US USA New Deal rural life TGN outside photograph portrait 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 Work Projects Administration Works Progress Administration still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc Yakima shacktown