These photos of Dust Bowl refugees are by Dorothea Lange.
Drought refugee children on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California, May 1937
Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California, November 1936
Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening
of orange picking season at Porterville, California, Nov 1936
Drought refugees are stopped at the inspection station in Yuma, Arizona, to have their baggage inspected for plant pests before they are allowed to enter California, Spring 1937
Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California
as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas," August 1936
Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the
pea fields near Nipomo, California, Spring 1937
Drought refugees. California, February 1936
Migrant children from Oklahoma on California highway, March 1937
Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work
in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona, May 1937
Oklahoma grandmother in southern California squatter's
camp. "Yes'm we're getting along just fine." March 1937