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A black and white photo of people in a store. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A young truant newsie, during school hours. Location: Nashville, Tennessee

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware

A black and white photo of two men, possibly related to: Street scene, Marysville, Ohio

Theatre on Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

Meat rationing preview. Harold Rowe, Office of Price Administration (OPA) food rationing chief, sells meat to girl reporter at shopping preview of new program

Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and 35 million dollars for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks "not worth the paper they are printed on"

Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"

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Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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Film copy on SIS roll 27, frame 1540.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Dorothea Lange contracted polio as a young girl. She learned professional photography skills while working in New York in her early 20s, and then landed in San Francisco where she ran a portrait business catering to the city's wealthy elite. Her second husband, Paul Taylor, helped her to get out into the fields with the destitute pickers, who she'd treat like portrait subjects with empathy and identification with her subjects. When the Depression hit, she captured crowded breadlines. In the late 1930s Dorothea Lange had been hired by the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration - to photograph Dust Bowl refugees escaped into California from the Midwest and her images went far beyond bureaucratic reportage. A skilled portraitist, Lange might not have been able to change government policies, but her images for the FSA were picked up by newspapers across the country. John Steinbeck used them for inspiration in his 1939 Dust Bowl tale "The Grapes of Wrath."

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arizona cochise county tombstone small towns nitrate negatives lot 656 dorothea lange photo crystal palace saloon original bar ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress vendors farmers agriculture
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Date

01/01/1938
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Dorothea Lange, FSA, HD

Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.
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arizona
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Lot 656, Tombstone, Dorothea Lange

Main street of Nyssa, Oregon, on Saturday afternoon

Migratory laborers like to play baseball. Here is one of them in a catchers uniform at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona

Isolated palm tree in Salt River Canyon, which bisects the entire length of a 32,101-acre wilderness area within the Tonto National Forest in Arizona

Opening of union cafe. Oakland, California. Photograph made day after 1936 Presidential election

Center market - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Farmers' wives about to enter general store at Blankenship, Martin County, Indiana

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Sonora, Pinal County, Arizona

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

The Stagecoach Motel on the edge of Seligman, Arizona, a town that likes to promote its position along a looping remnant of historic U.S. Route 66 that rises above the high-speed Interstate 10 in western Arizona. The motel, however, promotes its Norwegian ownership

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Welcome sign at the Page Boy Motel in Page, Arizona

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

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arizona cochise county tombstone small towns nitrate negatives lot 656 dorothea lange photo crystal palace saloon original bar ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress vendors farmers agriculture