Skip to main content Skip to main content

Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum

Disaster and Government Response: The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal #8008

Metadata

Date: February 1939
Location: Calipatria, California
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-019320-E

Caption

Migrant family from Arkansas playing hill-billy songs. February 1939. Farm Security Administration emergency migratory camp. Calipatria, California.

Rights

Photos downloaded from the Essential Lens site are cleared for educational use only.

Series Directory

Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum

Credits

Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting. © 2015
  • Closed Captioning
  • ISBN: 1-57680-905-6

Collections