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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute
1936 · Nipomo, San Luis Obispo County, California, United States
by Dorothea Lange
A woman sits holding a baby while a child leans against her under a makeshift shelter.
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FSA documentary work, 1930s · Library of Congress
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection
FSA/OWI photographs are works of the U.S. federal government in the public domain
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