November 1938. "Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp, California." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.

Washington, D.C. "Moore's Garden Theatre." Playing to-day: "The Invaders," a noteworthy Western made in 1912. National Photo Co. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "Washington Film Exchange. Moore's Garden." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

December 1908. Newton, North Carolina. "Boy at warping machine. Been there two years. Clyde Cotton Mill." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

August 1936. "Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief rolls in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. 'We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody.'" Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

August 17, 1936. Blythe, California. "Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. The official at the border inspection service said that on this day, 23 carloads and truckloads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed through from Arizona entering California." Medium-format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Capitol gas station, First Street and Maryland Ave. S.W." National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size | Another view here.