Sujet

Family from Oklahoma, Highway City, near Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Highway City, California, near Fresno. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month, approximately. They own a 1929 Ford. "The cheapest thing for the government to do would be to put people like me on enough land to make a living on. You can't tell me anything about running around with the fruit, I know that deal. You are lucky if you make enough to get home. I'm not a kickin', I'm being tuk care of, but if I should live to be hundred this way I'm not getting ahead noways.".

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A51_447

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

51,2Mo (2,1Mo) / 35,0cm x 36,6cm / 4133 x 4328 (300dpi)

Mots clés

California agriculture female women woman people male child children library work employment job man men hat farming family home father politics economics worker country fence fatherhood straw hat guy occupation clothes migration migrating mother refuge photography dress poor poverty political motherhood location century profession parenting clothing thirties concept depression negative recession dad APPAREL B&W trellis Library of Congress migrant mum refugee United States of America black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm worker WPA 20th century farmworker Great Depression refugees workers migrants American America USA agricultural worker displacement farm labourer New Deal TGN photograph united states Congressional Library Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell southerner clothing & dress fashion & clothing Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta forced displacement forced migration nitrate negative Okie Okies southerners Work Projects Administration Works Progress Administration still image Nitrate negatives. gmgpc