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Picturing History Photographs of the Farm Security Administration René West Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, RA, 1936 Walker Evans, Floyd Burroughs and Tengle children, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936 Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936 Marion Post Wolcott, December 1938 Negro Children and Old Home on Badly Eroded Land near Wadesboro, North Carolina “How do various income levels dress when they go to church?” “What do people do at home in the evenings?” “Has anyone ever taken a good series of pictures of a filling station, showing its relationship to the restless, shifting American Population?” Russell Lee, Getting gas, migrant family en route to California at small town Near Henrietta, Oklahoma, July 1939 “Has anyone ever taken a good series of pictures of a filling station, showing its relationship to the restless, shifting American Population?” Russell Lee, Migrants on the road checking tires at filling station near Henrietta, Oklahoma July 1939 Russell Lee, Filling radiator of migrant car with water. This is done frequently, as these radiators usually leak. Near Henrietta, Oklahoma, July 1939 Walker Evans, Shoeshine stand detail, Southeastern U.S., 1936 Dorothea Lange, Toward Los Angeles, California, March 1937 Dorothea Lange, On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County., March 1937 From Midweek Pictorial, October 17, 1936 Life Magazine June 21, 1937 2006 2008 2009 March 1939 1940 Dorothea Lange, Oklahoma dust bowl refugees, San Fernando, California, June 1935 Still from the Grapes of Wrath FSA, Untitled, between 1935 and 1942 Still from the Grapes of Wrath Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Gainesville Theatre Alliance Press photo Prowers County, Colorado. Dust storm, April 1935 The RA & FSA Photographers Arthur Rothstein Arthur Rothstein, RA, Oct. 1935, (Nethers, VA) Shenandoah National Park . Arthur Rothstein, RA, Nov. 1936 An automobile accident U.S. 40 between Hagerstown and Cumberland, Maryland. Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, Oct. 1935 Arthur Rothstein, RA, Apr. 1936 Dust is too much for this farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma Arthur Rothstein, RA, Mar. 1936 Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas Arthur Rothstein, Children of Submarginal Farmer. Pennington County, South Dakota, May 1936 Arthur Rothstein, FSA: Dust storm in Amarillo, Texas, 1936 Arthur Rothstein, RA, April. 1936 Dust storm. Note heavy metal signs blown out by wind. Amarillo, Texas Walker Evans Walker Evans, Auto parts shop. Atlanta, Georgia, March 1936 Walker Evans, Atlanta, Georgia. Frame houses and a billboard, March 1936 Walker Evans, Movie poster, vicinity of Moundsville, Alabama, Summer 1936 Walker Evans, Hale County, Alabama Burroughs Family Cabin, 1936 Walker Evans, Floyd and Allie Mae Burroughs Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Walker Evans, Sharecropper’s Grave, Hale County, Alabama , 1936 Walker Evans, Laura Minnie Lee Tengle, Hale County, Alabama , 1936 Ben Shahn Ben Shahn, Sam Nichols, Tenant Farmer, Boone County, Arkansas, October 1935 Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935 Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a RA client in the doorway of their home Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935 Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement Administration client in the doorway of their home Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935 Squatter's camp, Route 70, Arkansas Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935 Stove made out of old oil can, squatter's camp, Arkansas Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935 Primitive chicken roost, carved out of hollow log, on farm of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline,1934 Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, RA, 1936 Dorothea Lange, Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma, 1936 Dorothea Lange, Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma, 1936 Dorothea Lange, Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle, 1936 Dorothea Lange, Hop Picker, Josephine County, Oregon, near Grants Pass Dorothea Lange, Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938 Dorothea Lange, Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. New Mexico, April 1935 Dorothea Lange, August 1939 Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington Prowers County, Colorado. Dust storm, April 1935 It didn't take too much to make us happy or entertain us. We would invent our own games. Writing secrets on pieces of paper, putting them in a can, digging a hole and burying them, and all you had to do was just mention having a secret buried, and all the kids were curious and wanted to know where it was and what it said. Just the special few got to know. It was a small thing, a can in a hole, but very entertaining. We played all kinds of games with marbles. We had special cats eye marbles and steelies (steel bearings) that we prized and horseshoes, bean flips (sling shots), rubber guns that looked like rifles and shot several shots and some looked like pistols. We put wire thru tin cans and used them as stilts and also make wooden stilts from three inches to three feet off the ground. We would get old car tires and one of us would curl up inside of it and the other would roll the tire all around everywhere, eventually we would get so dizzy we would fall out. - Dallas W Thompson a "Grapes of Wrath" descendant Russell Lee, Feb. 1940 Negro playing marbles on the first warm day in the spring. In this game the players shoot from hole to hole, the same idea as in golf or miniature golf. Eufaula, Oklahoma. Russell Lee, Feb. 1940 Swing game at play party in McIntosh County, Oklahoma Jack Delano, Boyd Jones, playing tug-of-war with classmates during play period at the Alexander Community School in Greene County, Georgia, Nov. 1941 Russell Lee, Louisiana, October 1938 Negro musicians in car playing accordion and washboard and singing. Near New Iberia Dorothea Lange, RA, July 1937 1. Turpentine dipper; 2. at home; 3. at work 4. worker near Waycross, Georgia John Collier, OWI, May 14, 1942 Filling up with gas on the day before rationing, Washington D.C. Russell Lee, Oct. 1937 Window in kitchen of house, Williams County, North Dakota. During dust storms in this area, windows have to be stuffed in this manner Russell Lee, Oct. 1937 Kitchen in dust storm area with window sealed with towels. Williams County, North Dakota Arthur Rothstein, Liberal, Kansas, March 1936 The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Dorothea Lange, Nipomo, California, Feb. 1936 Pea picker's home. The condition of these people warrant resettlement camps for migrant agricultural workers.
