Sujet

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, Kern County, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes.

Date

1938

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A50_462

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

146,6Mo (4,1Mo) / 72,0cm x 51,0cm / 8499 x 6029 (300dpi)

Mots clés

drink female women woman people child children domestic planning family meeting arts cooperation economics infant baby babies country books book bottles sharing migration migrating mother photography infancy fuel poor poverty motherhood mothers location century camp milk household parenting ledger thirties literature concept depression negative recession appliance stove heating B&W feeding bottle cooperative displaced cooperating co-operation household appliance mum ledgers Co-operating United States of America Domestic Appliance black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression kerosene American America feeding USA displacement paraffin refugee camp displaced people photograph bottle united states 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 United States Office of War Information Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative displaced person displaced persons forced migrant forced migrants