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Sick Baby: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 1:38pm.
April 1939. Farm Security Administration migrant camp at Westley, California. Migrant mother with sick baby and agricultural workers medical association card. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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Rex Theatre: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 1:37pm.
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House Call: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 1:36pm.
October 1939. Farm Security Administration camp unit at Merrill, Oregon. The camp nurse introduces doctor to mother of sick baby. View full size.
Peach Picker: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 1:36pm.
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 - 4:37am.
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 - 4:36am.
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 - 4:34am.
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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