Migratory cotton picker on highway near Merced, California
Merced, CA, May 1, 1939
Dorothea Lange
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
A67.137.93076
Migratory cotton picker on highway near Merced, California. He and his family, from Independence, Kansas, have been looking for work chopping cotton. — Dorothea Lange
Other Pictures from On the Road
FSA Employment Summary | December 11, 1941
ExFSA.12.11.14_ephOpening page spread from "Again The Covered Wagon" article in Survey Graphic Magazine | July 1935
EX83.00.06.02Drought Refugees following the crops of California | August 1936
A83.19Drought Refugees | Circa 1935
A67.137.97605Map: "Origins of Migrants to California" | Circa 1937
A67.137.97604_9eNewspaper clipping, "Civil Liberties Probe," with PST holding map of migrant routes | Circa 1938
A67.137.97604_9D.L. "Expenses" list written on an envelope | Undated
A67.137.97602_195Toward Los Angeles, California | March, 1937
A67.137.94833Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California (Uncropped version) | 1936
A67.137.94286Texan squatters in Kern County, California, Left San Angelo, Texas (Page from Government Report) | 1934
A67.137.94245Cars on the Road | August 1936
A67.137.94035Oklahoma family on the road (page from mockup of An American Exodus) | August 12, 1938
A67.137.94005Family (Arizona, Bureau of Agricultural Economics) | 1940
A67.137.93207"100 Years of Independence." Texan refugees seek work in the carrot fields of Coachella Valley, California | February 1937
A67.137.93205Migrant People | Circa 1938
A67.137.93090Migratory cotton picker on highway near Merced, California | May 1, 1939
A67.137.93076Returning from California, Canadian County, Oklahoma | August 1938
A67.137.93061Camped in the rain behind billboard: three families, fourteen children. On U.S. 99. Near Famosa [or Vamosa], Kern County, California | November, 1939
A67.137.93038Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California (cropped version) | 1936
A67.137.93006Coachella Valley - Mexican Laborers around Camp | 1935
A67.137.8094Bindlestiffs (Migrant Single Men) | Circa 1935
A67.137.7895The Road West, U.S. 54, north of El Paso, Texas | 1938
A67.137.41014.1Family on the Road | 1938
A67.137.38245.1Atoka County, Oklahoma | 1938
A67.137.38244.3Homeless Family, Oklahoma | June 16, 1938
A67.137.38244.1Mid-Continent | 1938
A67.137.38243.3Mid-Continent, Oklahoma | 1938
A67.137.38242.3Midcontinent (Bound for California) | August 12, 1938
A67.137.38242.2Plantation Under... | 1938
A67.137.38229.3On the Road - U.S. 80 near El Paso, Texas | June 14, 1938
A67.137.38229.1Family on the Road | 1938
A67.137.38208.5Family on the Road, Oklahoma | 1938
A67.137.38208.1Migrant People | Circa 1938
A67.137.38040.6Cars on the Road
A67.137.38031.3Refugees Detained at Border | Circa 1935
A67.137.35248.5Refugees Detained at California Border | Circa 1935
A67.137.35248.1Untitled (Drought Refugees) | February 1935
A67.137.35231.5Mother of Five Children - Drought Refugee from Oklahoma | May 22, 1935
A67.137.35222.3Drought Refugees from Oklahoma | May 22, 1935
A67.137.35222.2Drought Refugees on Road | 1935
A67.137.35221.13Drought Refugees on Road | 1935
A67.137.35221.1Drought Refugees | 1935
A67.137.35207.7Drought Refugees | Circa 1935
A67.137.35207.2Untitled | 1935
A67.137.35168.3Untitled (Child of Migrants from Mexico) | Circa 1935
A67.137.35168.1Coachella Valley People | 1935
A67.137.35059.5Untitled (Oklahoma mother in California) | Circa 1935
A67.137.35059.1Mexican Laborers Around Camp | 1935
A67.137.35055.5Coachella Valley - Housing | 1935
A67.137.35044.5The Road People - Entering California at Yuma | 1935
A67.137.35007.5