Title

Four young migratory potato pickers..., FSA camp, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Four young migratory potato pickers, travelling together, come into camp to ask manager whether they would be eligible for a hot bath. "Sure, boys, but clean up afterwards." Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_309

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,8Mb (1,7Mb) / 16,5in x 12,6in / 4960 x 3793 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation exterior outdoors countryside agriculture people male library work office job man men hygiene health farming economics worker country guy occupation Oregon photography rustic location century camp profession hygienic manager thirties caravan campsite concept depression facilities negative recession B&W Library of Congress trailer sanitation road Transport United States of America 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 workers American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer rural life TGN trailer caravan outside photograph 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 still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc