Hooverville of Bakersfield, California
Dublin Core
Title
Hooverville of Bakersfield, California
Subject
- United States--California--Kern County--Bakersville.
- Migrants--California
- California--Kern County--Bakersville
- Migrants--California
- California--Kern County--Bakersville
Description
A rapidly growing community of people living rent-free on the edge of the town dump in whatever kind of shelter available. Approximately one thousand people now living here and raising children
Creator
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
Source
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540
Publisher
NP
Date
April 1936
Contributor
Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Rights
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
Relation
Reproduction number:
LC-USF34-001774-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b27057 (digital file from original neg.)
LC-USF34-001774-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b27057 (digital file from original neg.)
Format
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Language
English
Type
Image/photograph
Identifier
fsa 8b27057 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b27057
Coverage
Hooverville's during the Great Depression
Files
Citation
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, “Hooverville of Bakersfield, California,” Grapes of Wrath, accessed May 1, 2024, https://grapesofwrath.sfsuenglishdh.net/items/show/3.