November 1936. "Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 4:23pm.
He's wearing new clothes. Reminds me of a short piece that John Steinbeck wrote in the 1930s, describing a family of migratory workers he came accross one morning in California. If I recall, life was good for them that morning: they had new clothes and food. They shared breakfast with him.
