Dorothea Lange, Photo of Texas Tenant Farmer in Marysville, California

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Dorothea Lange, Texas Tenant Farmer, c. 1935. Library of Congress, LC-USZ6-1026.


Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California.

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