Example of self-resettlement in California.
Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or two at a time gave them enough for food and gas to continue. On this day, they were within a day's travel of their destination, Bakersfield, California. Their car had broken down en route and was abandoned
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Aug.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lange, Dorothea, photographer
NOTES:
Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print.)
Use electronic surrogate.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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SUBJECTS:
United States--California.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
DIGITAL ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b38486 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b38486