Dorothea Lange: Kern County Photographs
104 Dorothea Lange photographs of kern county, from the Library of Congress archive.
Pregnant migrant woman living in California squatter camp.…
1936
Cotton pickers camp. Kern County, California
1936
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California
1935
Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants…
1939
Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter,…
1939
Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed…
1939
Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed…
1939
U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck…
1939
Watching ball game. Shafter migrant camp. California
1938
Watching ball game. Shafter migrant camp. California
1938
Watching ball game. Shafter camp for migrants. California
1938
Watching ball game. Shafter camp for migrants. California
1938
Ball game. Shafter migrant camp. California
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Watching ball game.…
1938
Watching ball game. Shafter migrant camp. California
1939
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Watching ball game.…
1938
The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The…
1937
Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield,…
1939
U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck…
1939
U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck…
1939
U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck…
1939
On U.S. 99. in Kern County on the Tehachapi Ridge. Migrants…
1939
Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old…
1939
Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton…
1939
Farm-reared youth with no opportunity on the farm, now…
1938
Kern County, California is largely in the hands of big…
1939
Kern County, California. County road between potato fields
1939
Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp…
1939
Bottonwillow, California. "Company" cotton pickers' camp…
1939
Kern County. Debris left out on the flats where squatters'…
1939
Kern County. Debris left out on the flats where squatters'…
1939
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Kern County,…
1939
Kern County, California. Beside U.S. 99. Large-scale…
1939
On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to…
1939
Aged woman from Oklahoma. Kern County migrant camp,…
1936
Squatters in the brush near Wasco, California
1938
One faucet by the packing sheds is the only source of water…
1938
Cotton picker during strike carrying his Farm Security…
1938
Emptying cotton after weighing. Small cotton farm. Kern…
1938
Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of…
1938
Yard barn and cotton wagon on small California cotton farm.…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Migrant child in…
1938
Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County,…
1938
Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security…
1938
Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant…
1938
Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California.…
1938
Type of house in Shafter camp for migratory workers,…
1938
Pickers leaving the cotton field at noontime. Small cotton…
1938
Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans,…
1938
Gas station. Kern County, California
1938
Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the…
1938
Migrant child in Shafter camp, Farm Security…
1938
Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it…
1938
Migratory cotton pickers have stopped working because it…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Weighing cotton. Kern…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Weighing cotton. Kern…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Weighing cotton. Kern…
1938
Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Industrialized…
1938
Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the…
1938
Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is…
1938
Shafter camp for migratory agricultural workers, Farm…
1938
Children of refugee families now on Works Progress…
1938
Weighing cotton. Kern County, California
1938
Camp manager, migratory worker, and visitor to the camp in…
1938
During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense…
1938
Outside the Labor Temple where the conference called by the…
1938
The children crowd and push to reach the refreshments at…
1938
The children crowd and push to reach the refreshments at…
1938
During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker,…
1938
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security…
1938
Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California.…
1938
Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California.…
1938
Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California.…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Buttonwillow,…
1939
Buttonwillow, California. New large-scale cotton farming…
1939
Buttonwillow, Kern County, California. On the land since…
1939
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Kern County,…
1939
Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration…
1938
Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration…
1938
Vineyard during harvest. Large-scale farming. Tulare…
1938
Oil fields. Kern County, California
1938
Scene in Shafter, richest potato-producing area in…
1938
One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99.…
1938
Listening to the speaker at the conference to Aid…
1938
Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid…
1938
Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid…
1938
Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid…
1938
Halloween party at Shafter Camp for migrant agricultural…
1938
The children crowd and push to reach refreshments at…
1938
End of the Halloween party. Shafter migrant camp. California
1938
Refreshments for children of migrant families. Shafter…
1938
Mothers on the sidelines, watching the Halloween party.…
1938
Hungry boy at the Halloween party for migrant workers.…
1938
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Halloween party at…
1938
Children at Halloween party, waiting for signal to come for…
1938
Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California
1938
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security…
1938
Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer…
1938
Bakersfield, California. Outside Farm Security…
1938
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security…
1938
Kern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at…
1938
Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during…
1938
Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's…
1938