Dorothea Lange

 8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day."Near Meloland, Imperial County, California, February 1939

 Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. 

Common sight on California highways, November 1938

  

 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars monthly. February 1936

  

 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum. February 1936

  

 Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California. March 1937

  

 Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, California. Father is home after a day in the pea fields. Note tent platform, standard equipment in FSA camps. February 1939

  

 Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages, fourteen cents per crate 

of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California, February 1939

  

Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, March 1937