Late Thirties America, with Dorothea Lange at Shorpy:
California, March 1937. “Toward Los Angeles.”
May 1939. “U.S. 99 near Tulare, California. Used car lots and auto wrecking establishments add to the litter which fronts this highway.”
May 1939. “Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Auto camps of all kinds are strewn along this highway.”
September 1939. Klamath Falls, Oregon. “Burner (to dispose of sawdust and waste) and stacks of the Big Lakes Lumber Company, which produces shook for produce boxes.”
May 1937. “Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.”
April 1939. “Migrant agricultural workers in California along U.S. Highway 99. Greenfield, Salinas Valley. An Arkansawyers auto camp filled almost completely with migrants from Arkansas. Rent ten dollars a month for one room, iron bed, electricity. Rough board walls with cracks. This community is subject of a study by Regional Office, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Land Utilization Division, Berkeley.”
February 1939. Calipatria, California. “Outside the Farm Security Administration grant office during the pea harvest. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year.”
February 1939. “Migrant agricultural workers in California. Looking east down the railroad track near Calipatria. Single men, itinerants with ‘bindles,’ waiting for the freight.”
March 1936. “Consumers Utah ‘Blue Blaze’ company store in coal town. Near Price, Utah.”
[All photos by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration or Farm Security Administration. To view full size, visit Shorpy.]
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