Back – Potato Pickers
Kern County, CA, June 1935
Dorothea Lange
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
A67.137.35208.6
© The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California.
Additional Information
Other Pictures from In the Camps
Theater Lobby Card for the Film Version of The Grapes of Wrath | 1940
H84.205.27Pamphlet, "Their Blood is Strong" | 1938
EX83.05.01Opening page spread from "Again The Covered Wagon" article in Survey Graphic Magazine | July 1935
EX83.00.06.02"Indigent Ban Sustained" (page from government report, "Notes from the Field") | 1935
A78.144.26.17Mother of Five children, Drought Refugee from Oklahoma (Page from Government Report) | June 4, 1935
A78.144.26.16Tenant farmer in Texas to migrant laborer in CA (page from government report) | September 1935
A78.144.20.25Title page of Statement in support of project to establish camps for migrants in California | August 1935
A78.144.20.1Page from Statement in support of project to establish camps for migrants in California | August 22, 1935
A78.144.20_txt2Page from Statement in support of project to establish camps for migrants in California | August 22, 1935
A78.144.20_txt1Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma | August 1936
A67.137.94827Copus Camp, Near Westley | April 1, 1939
A67.137.94807Coachella Housing | 1935
A67.137.94768Obverse of "Drought Refugees from Oklahoma Camping by the Roadside" print | August 1936
A67.137.94028bDrought Refugees from Oklahoma Camping by the Roadside | August 1936
A67.137.94028Untitled (Private Labor Camp) | Circa 1935
A67.137.93489Untitled (Texas Tenant Farmer) | Sept. 1935
A67.137.93478Eighteen Year Old Mother from Oklahoma now a California Migrant | March 1935
A67.137.93308Disaster, Shacktown | 1940
A67.137.93226Migratory workers camp on the plains - Kern Co. - Bakersfield. Drought refugee family. | February 1, 1935
A67.137.93202Back (Drought Refugees) | 1935
A67.137.93079Rural Woman's Feet, Oklahoma | 1938
A67.137.93075Rural Oklahoma Woman & Children | 1938
A67.137.93074Pea Camp near Stockton | 1936
A67.137.93049Tent housing a family of four who will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. Imperial County, California | March 1937
A67.137.93015Marysville - Old Camp | Circa 1935
A67.137.8944Cottage Gardens - An Early Form of Tract Housing - Privately owned. $1.00 Down. | February 1935
A67.137.8904The Howard family - Oklahomans without food and shelter, encamped beside US 99 | 1936-37
A67.137.8795Drought Refugees | 1935
A67.137.8749Oklahoma Grandmother Sewing Outside of Tent | June 1935
A67.137.8726Untitled (Mexican Migrant Children, Pea Camp, Stockton, California) | Circa 1935
A67.137.8517Child in Mushroom Pickers Camp | Circa 1935
A67.137.8506Coachella Valley People | March 1935
A67.137.8088Mexican Child in Migrant Labor Camp | 1935
A67.137.7975Cotton Camps | Circa 1939
A67.137.40068.4Cotton Camp | Circa 1939
A67.137.40068.2Arvin Camp, Arvin Calif. - Settling Down | 1940
A67.137.40033.5Arvin Camp Settling Down | 1940
A67.137.40033.3Untitled (Woman and Child in Camp) | 1938
A67.137.38201.3Rural Oklahoma Woman & Children | 1938
A67.137.38201.1Funeral Cortege - End of an Era in a Small Valley Town | Circa 1938
A67.137.38062.1Westley Potato Camp | April 1938
A67.137.38016.1Marysville - Old Camp | Circa 1935
A67.137.35283.5Cottage Gardens - Outskirts of San Bernardino | 1935
A67.137.35272.12The Howards - 1936-37 | 1936-1937
A67.137.35243.5Untitled (Drought Refugees) | February 1935
A67.137.35231.5Outskirts of Shafter - Oklahoma Grandmother Quilting | June 1935
A67.137.35225.5Mother of Five Children - Drought Refugee from Oklahoma | May 22, 1935
A67.137.35222.3Mother of Five Children - Drought Refugee from Oklahoma | May 22, 1935
A67.137.35222.1Back - Potato Pickers | June 1935
A67.137.35208.6Drought Refugees (Back) | Circa 1935
A67.137.35208.1Three Generations of Texans Now Drought Refugees | 1935
A67.137.35202.4Three Generations of Texans now Drought Refugees | Circa 1935
A67.137.35202.1Ruby (Daughter of Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp, Near Sacramento, California) | 1935
A67.137.35201.4Ruby (Daughter of Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp, Near Sacramento, California) | November 1936
A67.137.35201.1Untitled (Pea Camp) | 1935
A67.137.35169.3Mexican Child - Pea Camp | Circa 1935
A67.137.35167Untitled (Camp Scenes) | 1935
A67.137.35163.6Walter Packard and Tom Collins | 1935
A67.137.35137.3Tom Collins and the Walter Packard Family | Circa 1935
A67.137.35137.1Coachella Valley People - Texan - Public Camp | 1935
A67.137.35053.5Mexican Labor | 1935
A67.137.35024.13"Grapes of Wrath" Billboard | 1939
A67.137.35003.4"Grapes of Wrath" Billboard | 1939
A67.137.35003.1