Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

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Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17, 1936, twenty-three car loads and truck loads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed throught that station entering California up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Dorothea Lange, attributed to: American: Photographer, artist, photojournalist

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America United States California

  1. 37 00 00 N , 119 00 00 W

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Science & Nature Weather & Seasons

Society & Culture Family Life

Society & Culture Issues & Causes

People Other

Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4072x4135
File Size : 16,444kb


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  1. 2017763095
  1. 1010000481
  1. 2-895-512
  1. 2017763095
  1. 2895512

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