Title

FSA migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Part of mobile camp unit, moving from harvest to harvest with workers (emergency). [Two trailers were purchased; one to be used as living quarters, office and headquarters for the camp manager (Farm Security Administration), the other for health services. Text on side of trailer: 'U.S.Department of Agriculture - Farm Security Administration - Migratory Labor Camps'].

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_475

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,9Mb (1,1Mb) / 13,8in x 14,6in / 4143 x 4382 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation California library government economics country migration migrating refuge photography location century camp mobile thirties caravan concept depression negative recession B&W Library of Congress trailer migrant refugee road Transport United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression refugees migrants American America USA displacement TGN trailer caravan photograph united states Congressional Library Department of Agriculture 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 forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc