Traditional Oklahoma family travels to California in 1936

Traditional Oklahoma family travels to California in 1936

Traveling to California in seeking stable farming.

Mother and father travel from Oklahoma to California with eleven children in search of stable farming due to drought.

Lange, Dorothea, photographer

Library of Congress: photo, print, drawing

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection

feb 1939

Lange, Dorothea, photographer

No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

The expectation of California was an abundance of farming. In reality, they family is bouncing from farming site to farming site. The mother wants to go back to Oklahoma, but the father refuses.

image: medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

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