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North of Elma: 1939
... View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Rural America) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/10/2008 - 7:57am -

August 1939. "Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, north of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Rural America)
The Ohio Building: 1906
... and imagine he'd toss aside that luxury for the freedom of Dorothea Lange's 1934 Ford. Don't go changing The Ohio Building looks ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/04/2022 - 10:59pm -

Toledo circa 1906. "Ohio Building, Madison Avenue and Superior Street." Nexus of ghost pedestrians! 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. O-HI-oSpelling out the name of your building is too literal to an architect that can turn it into a decorative detail. This is on the main entrance on Madison Avenue. HorsepowerIt seems from most of these Shorpy city pix from the early 20th century that 1905 or so is when automobile numbers exploded. Here, Toledo in 1906, the numbers of horse-drawn vehicles and automobiles is already about equal. The economics of postcard publishingI was just cogitating on this, having seen so many DPC photos on Shorpy in the last decade or more. Postcards were (are, they still exist, I think?) a small-format medium. Why an 8x10 negative? It seems, to me, more important in our time, for posterity, than for the market demands of over a century ago. But what an enterprise that demand supported. It's hard to imagine today, the resources that DPC brought to a market that is today trivial. Special trains? In an era when the entire nation traveled by rail, it's hard to imagine a practical alternative, despite the cost. Yet I look at the photo of William Henry Jackson in his private railroad car (post-dated by a decade at least, since he's clearly not a day over 40 here), and imagine he'd toss aside that luxury for the freedom of Dorothea Lange's 1934 Ford. Don't go changingThe Ohio Building looks largely unchanged. Even the cornice seems to have escaped the Great Cornice Purge of the 1950s. Coal, coal, coalOhio, home to thousands of abandoned coal mines. In this building we can find Geo. M. Jones Coal, Jackson Coal and W. Agostini & Co. Coal. (The Gallery, Bicycles, Cars, Trucks, Buses, DPC, Toledo)
Just Add Water: 1936
... family in automobile camp, California." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Something ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/24/2018 - 11:56am -

November 1936. "Migratory family in automobile camp, California." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Something is in thereI'm guessing that the man in the foreground has caught something in the tub and is wondering if it is something they can use for dinner because I doubt that a grown man would just sit and stare into an empty washtub. If a squirrel, raccoon, rabbit, opossum or some other critter has become trapped in there, he could not get out on his own and may provide some protein for the family to go along with the fried dough many had to eat to sustain themselves in those dire days. Desperate people would even eat rattlesnakes and still do today, even though they are well off. What do you think it is? It's the LaundryJudging from the clothes on the hood of the car drying in the sun, I'd say it's the laundry. [Hence the title. - Dave] (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, Kids)
Sharecropper Boy: 1937
... boy near Chesnee, South Carolina." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. I wonder ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/25/2015 - 6:11am -

June 1937. "Sharecropper boy near Chesnee, South Carolina." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. I wonder what he foundThis hard-working kid may have discovered something in the dirt that has his attention. My grandfather, who enlarged his garden just about every summer, always found objects like commemorative coins and medals, old buttons, gadgets, small medicine bottles, etc. He would empty his pockets each time he came into the house to clean up and we kids would get to keep his "finds". It's all been relost over the years and hopefully refound by someone else, and could have been some wonderful keepsakes for all we know. Metal detectors had not become widely available at the time. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange)
Bronx Baby Buggies: 1936
... certified applicant for resettlement, now live." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration, whose plan to move hundreds of ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/25/2013 - 4:40pm -

June 1936. "Bronx, New York. Background photo for Hightstown project. Many of the future Hightstown settlers are now living in the Bronx district. This is the street on which Mr. Morris Back and family, certified applicant for resettlement, now live." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration, whose plan to move hundreds of Eastern European, mostly Jewish, immigrants from New York to rural New Jersey met with a resounding meh. View full size. Resettlement in NJ[Prefatory note: The "Hightstown project" was Roosevelt, which at the time was called Jersey Homesteads. - Dave] The Resettlement Administration was also the sponsor of a substantial movement of mostly Jewish immigrants out of New York City to rural New Jersey, to a destination unlike the substantial Victorian era town of Hightstown. It created the town of Roosevelt out of farm land. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The Wikipedia article gives the particulars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt,_New_Jersey While the project was never economically viable, it attracted a lot of attention from famous people and has a unique architecture. My mother used to say the city people who were settled there had to learn house building as they went along and the results were charmingly amateurish, including flat roofs that might actually reflect the artistic trends of the period more than the influence of beginners. I'm sure they leaked. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, NYC)
Co-op Tires: 1939
... supply co-op. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Got flies? ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/08/2018 - 11:16pm -

October 1939. "Farmers' supply co-op. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Got flies?Given the presence of what looks like a two gallon can of "FLY SPRAY", I'd guess that flies were a problem. I think I rememberseeing tires wrapped in paper, must have been a while back. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Gas Stations)
Teen Mother colorized
This is a colorized version of Dorothea Lange's 1937 photograph of an 18 year old mother from Oklahoma in a ... miner. The photo was taken in 1936, not 1937. And it's Dorothea, not "Dorthea." Clrzed? Srsly? This looks like a color original ... 
 
Posted by Kenny - 04/12/2017 - 1:42pm -

This is a colorized version of Dorothea Lange's 1937 photograph of an 18 year old mother from Oklahoma in a California migrant workers camp. The colorization seems to magnify the harshness of her life, i.e. her hand and the vacant sadness of her eyes. You can't help but wonder if her life improved with the lifting of the Depression. What happened with her children and grandchildren? View full size. DiscrepanciesWhy do we think she's a mother? The photographer's caption info as recorded by the Library of Congress doesn't say anything about this girl having children. It says she's from Tennessee, not Oklahoma -- the daughter of a coal miner. The photo was taken in 1936, not 1937. And it's Dorothea, not "Dorthea." Clrzed? Srsly?This looks like a color original to me. Very few colorized photos do, there's always something not quite right, too much color saturation or too little. Even it it's a small part of the photo it pops out. Now that is... a well done bit of colorization. Overall it looks well balanced, and not overly saturated. The galvanized steel bucket is awesome. The only spot that could use some work is the stove. It seems a bit too purple, and a touch of yellow would neutralize it. Nice work. Something MissingA great job of colorizing but it doesn't have the impact of the black and white original. Nothing is Missing!The color just brings these people to life! Keep it up! I'm not a fanof the colorization of this photo. For me, it seems to take away from the mysterious and dramatic effect that vintage black and white photos put out there. I LOVE vintage black and white photos, and this colorization takes something away from the photo. It's still a nice photo, but it gives off a more modern look. I'd prefer to see it without color. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, Colorized Photos)
An Essential Part: 1939
... sawdust and waste. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon." Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size. Usually wigwam shaped. Most of these waste ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/20/2019 - 7:05pm -

August 1939. "Pelican Bay Lumber Company. The burner is as characteristic of the Northwest landscape as grain elevators are to the Plains. There are many types of variations. It is an essential part of the sawmill. Disposes of sawdust and waste. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon." Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size. Usually wigwam shaped.Most of these waste burners, at least in the Northwest, had flared sides (Google "wigwam burner.") Many of these rusty relics are still in place, although no longer used for reasons of air pollution. In addition, the scraps and sawdust from a lumber mill are no longer considered to be waste. They make up useful biomass which can be used for construction materials, mulch, fuel, etc. This impressive erection must have been an unusual case. [In other words, not shaped like a shuttlecock. - Dave] NSFWIs this the new Shorpy? Beehive BurnersIn British Columbia these were called beehive burners, since most of them had that shape. The last one I saw in operation was in the 1990s at a lumber mill in Canal Flats, near Cranbrook, B.C. This was at night, and the lower portions of the burner were glowing red hot, and sparks and cinders were flying out of the screen at the top into the dark sky. It was quite dramatic. The mill is still there, but the beehive burner is long gone. The City of New Westminster, near Vancouver, interviewed a worker who maintained a beehive burner here, and CBC television news covered an artist who painted them here. There's Gold In Them There Sawdust Now.When I worked for Georgia Pacific the sawdust was collected as logs and plywood panels were cut to size and sucked outside to a waiting freight car to be sent someplace where there must have been a deficit of sawdust. Unused wood, bark and damaged panels was also processed in a grinder and reduced to splinters before being sent off. There was very little waste generated. I always imagined the sawdust was sent to Pringles and combined with potato mush to be made into Pine Cone Delight Potato Chips. Off The Grid A sawdust burner is part of the plot in the C. J. Box novel "The Disappeared". (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Industry & Public Works)
Key System: 1939
... crossed the bay, there was the Key System . Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size. Keyless While Key System trains with lettered ... 
 
Posted by tterrace - 05/20/2015 - 8:37am -

April 1939. "San Francisco, California, seen from the First Street ramp of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge." Before BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) crossed the bay, there was the Key System. Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size. KeylessWhile Key System trains with lettered routes and also Sacramento Northern Railroad trains did use these tracks to the Transbay Terminal, the photo shows a train of the 3rd user, the Southern Pacific RR's Interurban Electric Railway with numbered routes. (Dorothea Lange, San Francisco)
Kern County Camp: 1936
... groves and vegetable fields of the West Coast. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Stovepipes ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/18/2013 - 7:12am -

November 1936. "View of Kern County migrant camp. California." One of the many Depression-era tent camps run by the Farm Security Administration that served as way stations for Dust Bowl migrants from the Midwest who found work picking crops in the citrus groves and vegetable fields of the West Coast. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. StovepipesIt appears that almost every tent has a stovepipe of some sort protuding from the top or the side. I am sure that food, aside from sleep after a long day in the field, was most important to these folks. Not sure, but it looks like the man in front of the big building on the right has set up an impromptu barber shop, and is giving someone a haircut. Tom Joad - where are you? (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression)
Lucky Street: 1936
... three or four rooms." Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Surprisingly ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/24/2017 - 7:45pm -

February 1936. "Lucky Street. Mission District, San Francisco. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms." Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Surprisingly intactLucky Street only runs two blocks in the Mission, south from 24th, traversing 25th, and dead ending into 26th. One block away from Garfield Square, which I believe appears as background to some of the automobile glamor shots also appearing on this site. These little alleyways were always cheaper, sketchier housing from the start though - they were originally access streets for single-family homes to take grocery deliveries, and to keep their stables and carriage houses, and to allow access for vaultmen. Fairly early on, folks started building more cheap homes into the backs of these lots, and they're still there today. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Kids, San Francisco)
Stumpy Valley: 1939
... River Valley, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Hard to ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/22/2018 - 8:56pm -

October 1939. "A stumpy valley where new farms are being established. Photos show character of land which settlers are buying -- stump land farmers making a new start in the Priest River Valley, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Hard to tellif those stumps were previously logged before or after the fire, good luck with the new farmers pulling all those stumps. [The farmers blasted them with dynamite. - Dave] TranslationI guess Stumpy Valley means clear cut forest. Before the FarmsWhenever I see farmlands, and hear about people "protesting" (complaining) that they are putting subdivisions over the open farmland, I wish I could see the land before it was developed into that "undeveloped" farmland. As though the farmland is the natural state! This is a great photograph of this pre-pre-development in a way we'd probably never imagine it. Even though most of it is essentially gone by the time the photograph was made. [Most of these unirrigated "stump ranches" failed due to desertification and soil depletion of the deforested land, with most of the acreage eventually given over to grazing. - Dave] Energetic Stump removal methodsWhen I was a kid, oh so many years ago, it was still possible to go down to the farm supply and get a few sticks of dynamite and caps, so you could "blow some stumps". I can also report that they weren't terribly picky about whether you actually had a farm or not, or whether or not you had any particularly pesky stumps, nor if you were an adult. Sometimes you actually did need something pretty powerful, it's easy to cut/dig out most of the visible roots and get the stump loose -- but that tap root can be pretty hard to get to and very hard to break by prying on it. My dad once tried pulling one with a steel cable attached to the bumper of our Corvair -- with predictable results. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Landscapes)
Turkey in the Straw: 1939
... Flat, Malheur County, Oregon." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. One of these ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/23/2015 - 10:57am -

October 1939. "Temporary buildings on Williams family's new farm. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. One of theseis not like the others. It looks like a privy in the middle with a round window in stead of the cartoon favorite crescent. And, yes, I grew up with one. Stop the Music!In the early fifties there was a TV show hosted by Bert Parks called Stop the Music in which he would call contestants on the phone and ask them the name of the song playing. It was usually a pop song of recent vintage and not too hard to guess. If you got that right they played the Mystery Tune which was a little more obscure and worth some money whose value increased each week if it was not guessed. One Mystery Tune was Turkey In Straw which went for many weeks unnamed except by me. I had watched earlier in the day one of those 1930's Merrie Melodies cartoons and guess what they had a bunch of turkeys in the straw dancing to that melody. I blurted out Turkey In The Straw but all I got was derision from the family but I stuck to my guns and made a 5 cent bet with my father on it. Weeks later I was vindicated and I got an extra nickel in my allowance that week. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange)
Good as New: 1939
... Health and Medical Association." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the FSA. View full size. Migratory Boys It is a mystery ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/24/2018 - 11:53am -

May 1939. "Farm Security Administration camp at Farmersville, Tulare County, California, for migratory agricultural laborers. Migratory boys come to the clinic for attention of the resident nurse of the Agricultural Workers' Health and Medical Association." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the FSA. View full size. Migratory BoysIt is a mystery how they always find the way back to pond in which they were born! Old Time MedicinesIt's difficult to determine all of the medicines and remedies that are in this doctor's formulary, but clearly there's the following: Band-Aids - Johnson & Johnson Asprin - unknown maker Tincture of Merthiolate, 1:2000 (an antiseptic) - Eli Lilly Whitfield's Ointment (an anti-fungal) - Eli Lilly Argyrol (an antiseptic, anti-infective & VD treatment) - Zonite Products Co. Interesting tidbit about Argyrol... it was so popular, particularly during wartime - it was used to treat gonorrhea infections - that the creator and initial producer, Dr. Albert Barnes (A.C. Barnes Company) made a fortune. He used that fortune to purchase fine art and his extensive art collection is now on display in downtown Philadelphia at the Barnes Foundation Museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Kids, Medicine)
Route 99: 1939
... for six months. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, On the Road) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/05/2009 - 2:43am -

May 1939. Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Farmer from Independence, Kansas, on the road at cotton chopping time. He and his family have been in California for six months. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, On the Road)
Waterfront Lots: 1937
... Washtub and ashcans under the eucalyptus allée. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Treacherous ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/15/2013 - 11:12am -

March 1937. "Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California." Washtub and ashcans under the eucalyptus allée. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Treacherous Irrigation CanalsThe irrigation canals in the Imperial Valley are notorious for drownings. Many an automobile has strayed off the road and gone into a canal doing a half flip, submerging the passenger compartment of the car. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange)
Boy, Fourteen: 1936
... grade?' American River camp, near Sacramento." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. The Grapes ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/25/2018 - 6:27pm -

November 1936. "Portraits of destitute migrant agricultural workers and their children. Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby. Father says, 'They call me a road hog and a bum, but if I am, how did that boy get into the eighth grade?' American River camp, near Sacramento." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. The Grapes of WrathI just watched the movie. These people lived it. God Bless Them. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, Kids)
Citrus Squatters: 1936
... Californians, waiting for work in the groves." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Flies on ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/28/2019 - 11:47am -

November 1936. "Squatter camp on the flat where families live during the orange picking season near Porterville. Part of migrant family of five, native Californians, waiting for work in the groves." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Flies on the flyFlies on the outside of the tent and, if Shorpy experience is any guide, everywhere else. Also, Mother is making the same face as the dog in the photo of the Basque shepherd! (The Gallery, Agriculture, Camping, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression)
Valley Girl: 1936
... San Joaquin Valley, California." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Lady of the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/25/2018 - 1:28pm -

November 1936. "Children and home of cotton workers at migratory camp in southern San Joaquin Valley, California." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Lady of the flies.I thought it was nice that she had stockings with a design on them. Once I enlarged the photo, she and the surroundings are covered with flies. (The Gallery, Camping, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression)
Utopian Picnic: 1936
... Sherwood Eddy, a New York writer and reformer." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. That ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/07/2018 - 11:57am -

July 1936. "Hillhouse, Mississippi. Girls with food for Fourth of July celebration at Delta Cooperative Farm settled by evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas, organized in 1935 by Sherwood Eddy, a New York writer and reformer." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. That HaircutMom, who was born in 1930, had a haircut like the girl on the right for most of her childhood. "How I hated that haircut!" she'd always say when looking at old pictures. That was one of few styles for little girls during the Great Depression. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Kids, Rural America)
Madonna of the Hops: 1939
... living like a dog'." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. I hope she ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/14/2017 - 9:23am -

August 1939. Yakima Valley, Washington. "Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age 23, been on the road seven years. Married. 'I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog'." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. I hope she made itHaving heard stories of the depression from my mother, and seeing this picture of this hard working mother I hope she found her way into a good life with her family. I hope too, that her husband was able to survive the great war they were soon to be thrust into. It would be wonderful to hear from relatives of the people in these posts to tell us the rest of the story. Happy Mothers Day. I hope you did, MamaA photo to make us ponder our good luck on Mother's Day. Accelerated agingViewing these heartbreaking photos of hard times makes me aware of how rapidly people age when times are particularly tough. To compare this poor girl to the "luckier" ones, it is difficult to believe she is only 23, equivalent perhaps to a "just one year out of college" bright-eyed, co-ed we may know, and yet the enthusiasm and optimism she may have once felt as a teen looking forward to being a grown-up is beaten down, nearly gone, like the sleeve torn off her dress, almost to the point of sheer desperation and hopelessness. One wonders how she even managed a smile or could have envisioned a better future. As for the sad-eyed baby, his face looks even older than hers. Nobody wants to think about how hard many of our ancestors worked and toiled, even went without life's necessities, just to persevere and make things better for us, but I guarantee you they did. Think about it sometime. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, Kids)
The Searchers: 1937
... View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/05/2009 - 2:06am -

March 1937. "Unemployed family from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, camped on a river bottom near Holtville, California." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression)
In the Cotton: 1935
... work in the cotton." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. (The ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/18/2017 - 11:28pm -

June 1935. "Migrant agricultural workers in California. Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, Kids)
Farm-Raised: 1937
... families. Sharecropper near Hartwell, Georgia." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/26/2017 - 2:10pm -

July 1937. "Landless sharecropper families. Sharecropper near Hartwell, Georgia." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Sharecroppers in the Savannah River ValleyMy family lived in Lowndesville, SC from the early 1800's until the late 1920's when they moved to the city of Greenville, SC to work in the mills. My grandparents worked as sharecroppers there in the Savannah River valley until they couldn't pay property taxes or make a living anymore. I love your latest pic from Hartwell, Georgia. It reminds me of my family back then. Very hard life. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Kids)
Coal Miner's Daughter: 1936
... coal miner's daughter, previously seen here . Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size. (The Gallery, Camping, Dorothea Lange, Great ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/22/2013 - 11:27am -

November 1936. "Home of Tennessee family of seven, now migratory workers living in camp outside of Sacramento, California. Father was coal miner in Tennessee but when the mines were not working received two days a week relief work. 'Thought we could make it better out here'." The coal miner's daughter, previously seen here. Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size. (The Gallery, Camping, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression)
We Can't Go Home Again: 1939
... can't go back. I've got nothing to farm with'." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. (The ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/18/2017 - 10:49am -

February 1939. Brawley, Imperial County, California. "In Farm Security Administration migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father, eldest daughter and eldest son working. She: 'I want to go back to where we can live happy, live decent, and grow what we eat.' He: 'I've made my mistake and now we can't go back. I've got nothing to farm with'." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Dust Bowl, Great Depression, Kids)
Private Entrance: 1936
... San Francisco, California." 4x5 acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Wow! I ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/28/2017 - 12:01pm -

February 1936. "Mission District firetrap. San Francisco, California." 4x5 acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Wow!I wonder if Aaron Siskind could have been her assistant on this shoot. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, San Francisco)
Jackknife Saloon: 1939
... discontinued in 1914." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Man of the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/18/2018 - 9:43am -

October 1939. Gem County, Idaho. "Member of Ola self help sawmill co-op lives in what was once the 'Jackknife Saloon.' This type building is characteristic of early Idaho. The stagecoach used to stop here to change horses and for the refreshment of travelers. This was discontinued in 1914." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Man of the houseDang photographer caught me in my house dress. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Frontier Life)
Industrial Robot: 1938
... studies on Industrial Workers of the World." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. St. Helena ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/01/2018 - 3:53pm -

December 1938. "Napa Valley. More than 25 years a bindlestiff. [Also seen here.] Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's studies on Industrial Workers of the World." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. St. Helena HighwaymanHe's just leaving Rutherford, northward on today's St. Helena Highway 128. The old train station at Runtherford would be to the left and there is still a road sign with mileage to St' Helena, Calistoga and Lakeport in approximately the same location. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, On the Road)
Milestone
... of the Immortals Hmmm, Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Lewis Hine, Russell Lee, Walker Evans ... and tterrace. You ... 
 
Posted by tterrace - 06/24/2009 - 4:14pm -

It was one year ago, June 23, 2008, that I uploaded my first photos to Shorpy. Ironic that on that date, exactly one year less a day before Kodak discontinued the film, one of them was a Kodachrome. This is me, in Kodachrome, shooting Kodachrome with my Kodak Retinette, in July 1967. View full size. Styling!This reminds me of the way I typically dress and comb my hair. Nobody my age tucks their shirt in so I'm trying to bring it back. Happy anniversary, Tterrace!We're glad you're here and we love your photos. Keep 'em coming! Thanks, TterraceYour photos and comments are part of what make Shorpy the best photo website I've seen. Thank you so muchI like your photos, they are a big part of SHORPYs side. Thank you for every photo, keep on! Photographers listI think tterace deserves to be included in the list in the right sidebar. Thanks, tterrace. [Good idea. I've created a gallery for his posts called tterrapix. Now all he needs to do is to go back and "tag" his previous posts to make them appear in the gallery. - Dave] Thanks a millionTo Erzsi for suggesting my gallery, to Dave for creating it and also to Dave for tackling the lion's share of the tagging, which I was bollixing up on my first attempt. Also to all the people who've said nice things about my photos. Viva Shorpy! One of the ImmortalsHmmm, Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Lewis Hine, Russell Lee, Walker Evans ... and tterrace. You move in some pretty good company, buddy! McNear's BeachI'm going to take a stab here, and say this was taken near McNear's Beach in San Rafael California. That is the Richmond-San Rafael bridge for sure in the background. I'll even say that it's a hill that you can climb and look down upon the Peacock Gap Golf Course. Milestone locationThis is a section of this shot, so you're right about the bridge, rgraham, but it's actually on the hill overlooking downtown San Rafael, up Robert Dollar Drive in Boyd Park. Ah hah!I think I know that location now. It's the hill that seems to get a fire going on at least once each summer. There used to be a cross on top of it, but I'm sure it's been taken down by now. I can see 101 running off into the distance, heading over into Corte Madera, and Larkspur. I did in fact just cross that bridge twice this morning. re: Ah hahActually, that's the approach to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, then State 17, now I-580. You can see the old westbound overpass from 101 near the right edge. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, tterrapix)
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