Tenant farmer in Texas to migrant laborer in CA (page from government report)

California, September 1935

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print with handwritten captions on mount

Gift of Paul S. Taylor

8.5 in x 11 in

A78.144.20.25

© The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California.

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Statement in Support of Project to Establish Camps for Migrants in California Report to the California Resettlement Administration by Paul S. Taylor, with original photographs by Dorothea Lange

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Statement in Support of Project to Establish Camps for Migrants in California Report to the California Resettlement Administration by Paul S. Taylor, with original photographs by Dorothea Lange

Tenant farmer in Texas to migrant laborer in CA
1927 made $7000
1928 broke even
1929 went in the hole
1930 still deeper
1931 lost everything
1932 hit road
Marysville Camp   August, 1935