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Peach Picker: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 2:36pm.
July 1936. Peach picker in Musella, Georgia. Earns 75 cents a day. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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Shacktown Kids: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 5:37am.
August 1939. Yakima Valley, Washington. Shacktown community, mostly families from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent $7 per month, no plumbing. Husband earns Work Projects Administration wages, $44 per month. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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Wheeler's Church: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 5:36am.
July 1939. Women of the congregation of Wheeler's Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina. View full size.
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Person County: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 5:34am.
July 1939. Farm boy in the doorway of a tobacco barn. Person County, North Carolina. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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The Simple Life: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 5:33am.
August 1939. Three of the four Arnold children outside their farmhouse at Michigan Hill. The oldest boy earned the money to buy his bicycle. Thurston County, western Washington. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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Knee Baby: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/02/2007 - 12:21pm.
July 1939, Person County, North Carolina. Wife and child of tobacco sharecropper. The littlest girl comes in from outside for something to eat while Mother is doing her housework. The child next to the baby is called in this country the "knee baby." View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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Big Brother: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/02/2007 - 12:19pm.
August 1939. Migratory children living in "Ramblers Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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