Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange.
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Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. "We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody".
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Creator
- Dorothea Lange, attributed to: American: Photographer, artist, photojournalist
Geographic Hierarchy
World North and Central America United States New Mexico
- 35 00 00 N , 105 00 00 W
Category Hierarchy
Lifestyle & Leisure Transport & Travel
Society & Culture Issues & Causes
Society & Culture Wealth & Poverty
Digital Image Size
Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 2857x3641
File Size : 10,159kb
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- 2017763150
- 1010000535
- 2-895-566
- 2017763150
- 2895566
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