To harvest the crops of California thousands of families live literally on wheels, San Joaquin Valley

This 1935 Dorthea Lange image shows Dust Bowl refugees along a highway near Bakersfield, California.

Highway

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1935 Nov.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lange, Dorothea, photographer
NOTES: Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
SUBJECTS: Migrants--California Nitrate negatives. United States--California--Kern County--Bakersfield.
REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
DIGITAL ID:  (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b26859 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b26859


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