#theimperialvalley

Slums of East El Centro, California. Typical of housing and sanitary conditions of Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. The houses rent for eight dollars a month #California #Mexican #theImperialValley #ImperialValley #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769884/

Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California #Mexican #theImperialValley #California #first #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769956/

Mexican melon picker of the Imperial Valley, unloading his bag. California #Mexican #theImperialValley #California #DorotheaLange #American #theGreatDepression #DorotheaLange’s #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769955/

Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California #theImperialValley #California #ImperialValley #WorldWarII #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769838/

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Early in 1935, their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers #USHighway99 #California #Winston-Salem #NorthCarolina #theImperialValley #GreatDepression #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769642/