Title

Migratory agricultural workers - cotton hoers, near Los Banos, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoers. Leave field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents per hour.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A56_378

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,0Mb (1,9Mb) / 16,5in x 12,7in / 4960 x 3807 (300dpi)

Keywords

California countryside road agriculture field fields people male library employment job man men farming economics country fence barbed wire guy occupation tools tool migration migrating refuge photography rustic poor poverty farmland location century profession thirties concept depression negative recession cotton B&W hoes hoe hoeing Library of Congress migrant refugee 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 refugees rural migrants American America USA agricultural worker displacement farm labourer rural life TGN 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 forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc