Dorothea Lange Photographs from 1938
258 photographs taken in 1938, from the Library of Congress archive.
New Mexico desert. Highway No. 70. The route many refugees…
New Mexico
Plantation of Brazos riverbottoms. Texas
Brazos River Valley, Texas
Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms.…
Brazos River Valley, Texas
O.O. Mills, Postmaster at Carey, Childress County, Texas.…
Carey, Childress County, Texas
Contour plowing on mechanized farm of the Texas Panhandle
Texas Panhandle, Texas
Power farming displaces tenants from the land in the…
Texas Panhandle, Texas
Migratory laborer's wife with three children (not in…
Childress County, Texas, Childress
Campaign posters in garage window, just before the primary.…
Waco, Texas, Mclennan County
Mechanization in the Arkansas Bottoms was beginning to…
Arkansas, England, Lonoke County
Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for…
Arkansas, Menifee, Conway County
"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County,…
Atoka County, Oklahoma, Atoka
Grain elevator on the Texas Panhandle plains. Everett, Texas
Oldham County, Everett, Texas
McLennan County courthouse just before the primaries. Waco,…
Waco, Texas, Mclennan County
Wife of a migratory laborer with three children. Near…
Childress County, Texas, Childress
Southwestern New Mexico
New Mexico
Mexicans entering the United States. United States…
El Paso County, El Paso, Texas
O.O. Mills, United States Postmaster at Carey. Childress…
Carey, Childress County, Texas
Sunday morning revival of the Victory through Christ…
Dos Palos, California, Merced County
Squatters in the brush near Wasco, California
California, Kern County, Wasco
Delta plantation landscape. Arkansas
Arkansas
Squatter camp on the flat where families live during the…
Tulare County, Porterville, California
The interview for unemployment compensation. San Francisco,…
San Francisco, California, San Francisco County
The interview for unemployment compensation. San Francisco,…
San Francisco, California, San Francisco County
The All-American Canal under construction, Imperial County,…
California, Imperial County