Vintage Photos: 1939

A sick migrant child. Yakima Valley, Toppenish, WA. Photo by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration.

More great photos by Dorothea Lange below the fold.

Dorothea Lange photos: FSA, Shoofly, NC 1939; Country Store: N. Carolina 1939; Oakland, California 1941; Bakersfield, California 1940; Coca Cola Baby Bottle (migrants, California 1939);  Damaged Child & Delta Children (1936); Daughter of Migrant, near Sacramento 1936; Sharecropper Family, 1939; Malheur County, Oregon; Imperial Valley, CA (1937); Japanese-American children (1942); Resettled Farm Child N.M. (1935); Children, Oklahoma (1936); Tavern, Merrill, OR (1939); Social Security Tattoo (1939); Elm Grove, OK (1936); Texas Migrant Family (1936); Buena, Washington (1939); Colored Only Theatre (1937); Drought Refugees in California (1935); Marion County, OR (1939); Thurston County, WA (1939); Kern County, CA (1938); Yakima (1939); San Joaquin Valley (1936); Farm Child (1935); California (1935); Earle Arkansas (1936); Former slave, 1936; waiting for relief checks (1937);

Comments

[Jan Holten]

Poor Little Girl. Back in those days, sometimes the ground was the only place to lay. Hopefully she got better, and survived. Been there , done that.