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Title: To harvest the crops of California thousands of families live literally on wheels, San Joaquin Valley.
Summary: Photograph shows children sitting on top of family belongings piled up on the back of a flatbed truck; two men are standing by the sides of the truck.
In album: Rural rHISTORY IS RADICALLLLLL

S. Taylor. 1935, [between plates 1 and 2]. Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-19156-0002 (digital file from LOT 898, page 1a)
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Author
Dorothea Lange  (1895–1965)  wikidata:Q230673 q:en:Dorothea Lange
 
Dorothea Lange
Alternative names
Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; Dorothea Lange Taylor; Dorothea Nutzhorn; Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange
Description American-German journalist, photojournalist, photographer, documentarian and artist
Date of birth/death 26 May 1895 Edit this at Wikidata 11 October 1965 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hoboken Edit this at Wikidata San Francisco Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q230673
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.
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Homeless Mexican Migrant Farmers

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March 1935

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