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Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl

Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl. Photographs of Migrant Workers in California 1936-1939 by Dorothea Lange. And Voices from the Dustbowl a collection of actual recordings from Government Camps in California. Downloaded from the American Memory Project The Library of Congress

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Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl

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  1. Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl

  2. Photographs of Migrant Workers in California 1936-1939 by Dorothea Lange

  3. And Voices from the Dustbowl a collection of actual recordings from Government Camps in California

  4. Downloaded from the American Memory Project The Library of Congress Created by Ms. Margaret Boyle and Mr. Gary J. Whitehead Tenafly High School, Tenafly New Jersey

  5. One of the westward highways migrants drove, 1938

  6. Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, 1936

  7. Between Tulare and Fresno, migrants on the road, 1939

  8. Former Missouri farmers, now migrant workers in California, 1936

  9. Children of migrant workers, California, 1937

  10. Migrant pea pickers, and all their worldly possessions, 1936

  11. Migrant cotton picker from Kansas on highway near Merced, California

  12. Tom Collins, manager of Kern camp, California, with migrant mother and child, 1936

  13. Man in Maryville migrant camp, figuring his year’s earnings, 1935

  14. Oklahoman family vehicle, stranded by side of the road in California, 1936

  15. Squatters along a highway camp (Hooverville) near Bakersfield, 1935

  16. Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and the Ridge, 1939

  17. Migrant worker entertainers, in blackface, Shafter camp, 1938

  18. Migratory family in auto camp, California, 1936

  19. Migrant laborers, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

  20. Family, one month after leaving South Dakota, on road in Tulelake, California, 1939

  21. Oklahoma drought refugee children, migrant camp, California

  22. Arkansas family, seven months in California, washing dishes, 1936

  23. Arkansan girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California.

  24. Pregnant migrant woman, squatter’s camp, Kern County, California, 1936

  25. Motherless children, cotton pickers, California, 1935

  26. Drought refugees in migrant camp, California

  27. California migrant camp, 1936

  28. Son of destitute migrant, American River Camp, near Sacramento, California

  29. Migrant worker’s home, California, 1937

  30. Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 1937

  31. Freight car converted into house in “Little Oklahoma,” California

  32. Pea ranch camp near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

  33. Migrant cotton picker, California, 1938

  34. Housing for workers of the Frick Ranch, California

  35. Camp council, FSA camp for migrant workers, Farmersville, California

  36. Kern County migrant camp, California, 1936

  37. Migrant child, FSA camp, Shafter, California, 1938

  38. Halloween party, Shafter camp, California, 1938

  39. FSA migrant labor camp, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

  40. Migrant pea pickers on the road with tire trouble, California, 1936

  41. Destitute family of pea pickers; mother of seven, age 32, Nipoma, California, 1936

  42. Works Cited Lange, Dorothea. The American Memory Project. “America from the Great Depression to WWII: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.” Library of Congress. 12/15/03. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html (9/28/04). Voices from the Dustbowl. The American Memory Project. “The Charles R. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection 1940-41. American Folk Life Center, Library of Congress. 1/8/98. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html (9/28/04).

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