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Family living in shacktown community. Washington, Yakima Valley, Wapato

Family living in shacktown community. Washington, Yakima Valley, Wapat...

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 availabl... More

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the ...

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 availabl... More

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age twenty three, been on the road seven years. Married. "I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog." Washington, Yakima Valley

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned f...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three years

Washington, Yakima Valley. Camp of family with nine children who have ...

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 availabl... More

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Va...

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 availabl... More

Many fruit tramps live in tents like these. Yakima, Washington

Many fruit tramps live in tents like these. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

The oldest girl seated in the doorway of the house trailer cares for t...

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 availabl... More

Migratory woman, originally from Texas. Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory woman, originally from Texas. Yakima Valley, Washington

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 availabl... More

Another home recently self-built in one of several shacktown communities around Yakima. Washington, Yakima, Sumac Park

Another home recently self-built in one of several shacktown communiti...

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 availabl... More

Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the third year to pick hops. Mother: "You'd be surprised what that boy can pick." Washington, Yakima Valley

Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the thir...

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 availabl... More

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Va...

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 availabl... More

Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three years. Washington, Yakima Valley

Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three ...

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 availabl... More

Children of migratory fruit workers. Yakima, Washington

Children of migratory fruit workers. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima, Washington. Father is ill and unable to work. They are paying for land (three hundred and fifty dollars) at rate of seven dollars a month

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Ya...

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 availabl... More

Children of a family of fruit workers who have squatted for the summer in the Yakima Valley. Washington

Children of a family of fruit workers who have squatted for the summer...

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 availabl... More

Fruit tramps from California who have come to the Yakima Valley for apple thinning. Yakima, Washington

Fruit tramps from California who have come to the Yakima Valley for ap...

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 availabl... More

His family traveled with him on the freights. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

His family traveled with him on the freights. Washington, Toppenish, Y...

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 availabl... More

Squatter's shack and garden. Yakima, Washington

Squatter's shack and garden. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

[Stockade in Yakima, Washington]

[Stockade in Yakima, Washington]

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes a stockade built in 1933 during a pickers' strike. Includes a newspaper clipping from October 21, 1939, describing a petition to remove the stockad... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quarters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima shacktown, (Sumac Park) is one of several large shacktown communities around Yakima. General caption number 26

Washington, Yakima shacktown, (Sumac Park) is one of several large sha...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Toppenish. Single itinerant men on way to railroad yard

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Toppenish. Single itinerant men on way...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima. Homes are built bit by bit with whatever materials are available. Many drought refugees settle in Sumac Park, one of several large shacktowns around Yakima

Washington, Yakima. Homes are built bit by bit with whatever materials...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Camp of migratory families in "Ramblers Park."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Camp of migratory families in "Ramblers Par...

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 availabl... More

Migratory fruit workers from Missouri. Yakima, Washington

Migratory fruit workers from Missouri. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

Child of migratory worker. Yakima, Washington

Child of migratory worker. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

Motherless migrant child. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

Motherless migrant child. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

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 availabl... More

This is a younger brother who also picks hops. Washington, near Toppenish, Yakima Valley

This is a younger brother who also picks hops. Washington, near Toppen...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima. The famed stockade. Used as jail for striking farm workers in 1933. See general caption number 33

Washington, Yakima. The famed stockade. Used as jail for striking farm...

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 availabl... More

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off (that is in Work Projects Administration - 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs...

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 availabl... More

A black and white photo of a couple of people in front of a tent, Migratory workers camp. Yakima, Washington

A black and white photo of a couple of people in front of a tent, Migr...

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 availabl... More

Camp of migratory family originally from Texas in "Ramblers Park." Yakima Valley, Washington

Camp of migratory family originally from Texas in "Ramblers Park." Yak...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima. In Sumac Park. An example of a better type of home occasionally found in these rural shacktowns. General caption number 26

Washington, Yakima. In Sumac Park. An example of a better type of home...

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 availabl... More

His family traveled with him on the freights. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley

His family traveled with him on the freights. Washington, Toppenish, Y...

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 availabl... More

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley Toppenish, Yakima Valley, Wash. Aug. 1939. Family who traveled by freight train

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Va...

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 availabl... More

Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is trying to support three boys by picking pears. Just arrived from Minnesota, she used to work in a restaurant there. Oldest boy, age ten, helped carry ladder from tree to tree Photograph made at end of day (temperature 106 degrees) when she returned from orchard. Yakima Valley, Washington

Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is t...

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 availabl... More

Shelter in one of the large shacktown communities around Yakima. Yakima, Washington, Sumac Park

Shelter in one of the large shacktown communities around Yakima. Yakim...

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 availabl... More

Crossroads grocery store and filling station, typical of many such small enterprises in new community. Yakima, Washington, Sumac Park

Crossroads grocery store and filling station, typical of many such sma...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima. The famed stockade. Building behind stockade is the courthouse. General caption number 33

Washington, Yakima. The famed stockade. Building behind stockade is th...

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 availabl... More

Wife of worker in fruit orchards. Yakima, Washington

Wife of worker in fruit orchards. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

A woman sitting on a bed holding a baby, Migratory workers. Yakima, Washington

A woman sitting on a bed holding a baby, Migratory workers. Yakima, Wa...

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 availabl... More

The house trailer and the youngest little girl. Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish

The house trailer and the youngest little girl. Washington, Yakima Val...

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 availabl... More

Camp of migratory family from Texas. Washington, Yakima Valley

Camp of migratory family from Texas. Washington, Yakima Valley

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima. Home of better type in shacktown, south of fairgrounds. General caption number 25

Washington, Yakima. Home of better type in shacktown, south of fairgro...

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. The valley below seen from advertised "lookout point." See general caption number 33

Washington, Yakima Valley. The valley below seen from advertised "look...

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 availabl... More

Three migratory families in "Ramblers Park." Washington, Yakima Valley

Three migratory families in "Ramblers Park." Washington, Yakima Valley

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 availabl... More

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing. Husband working on Work Projects Administration wages, forty four dollars. Washington, Yakima Valley

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri....

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Cheap auto camp for migratory workers waiting for the opening of the hop season. Old fruit tramp (20378-C) lives in this camp

Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Cheap auto camp for migratory wo...

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 availabl... More

A black and white photo of three men sitting on the sidewalk. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three men sitting on the sidewalk. Office o...

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 availabl... More

Child of migratory fruit worker. Yakima, Washington

Child of migratory fruit worker. Yakima, Washington

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima. Progressive housing on half acre in Yakima shacktown

Washington, Yakima. Progressive housing on half acre in Yakima shackto...

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 availabl... More

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing. Husband working on Work Projects Administration wages, forty four dollars. Washington, Yakima Valley

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri....

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 availabl... More

Washington, Yakima shacktown, (Sumac Park) is one of several large shacktown communities around Yakima. General caption number 26

Washington, Yakima shacktown, (Sumac Park) is one of several large sha...

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 availabl... More

Migratory child in squatter camp before hop season opens. Her little brothers work in the field. Washington, Yakima Valley

Migratory child in squatter camp before hop season opens. Her little b...

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 availabl... More

Home, self-built in two years, bit by bit. Have cow, calf, chickens, barn. Family originally came from Michigan. Husband now has job in garage. Yakima, Washington

Home, self-built in two years, bit by bit. Have cow, calf, chickens, b...

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 availabl... More