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Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt. On Tenant Purchase farm. Forty acres, price six thousand fifty dollars, all stock and machinery included. Diversified irrigated farm, raising grapes, tomatoes, cantaloupes and watermelons, sweet and field corn, hay and grain. They have six cows, hogs

Washington, Yakima Valley, west of Toppenish. On tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client E. Houston. Irrigated pasture, cows, barn on Houston farm. A younger couple were tenant farmers for seven years, now have their own farm, eighty acres, price seven thousand five hundred and forty four dollars

Haystack and barn of Jo Webster, farmer in El Camino district, Tehema County, California. He owns 25 acres but owes money on irrigation bonds. He rents an additional 15 acres. He has about 20 dairy cows, poultry and raises his own alfalfa

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for twenty-five years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own forty eight acres of good land, this good house, price six thousand seventy hundred and seventy dollars. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says "Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Looking down on hop yard on French-Canadian farm. Three weeks before picking time. (Note hop kiln (2 stacks), right backyard)

Washington, Yakima Valley. Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine, three weeks before picking time

Haystack and barn of Jo Webster, farmer in El Camino district, Tehema County, California. He owns twenty-five acres but owes money on irrigation bonds. He rents an additional fifteen acres. He has about twenty dairy cows, poultry and raises his own alfalfa

Washington, Yakima Valley. Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine, three weeks before picking time

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt. On Tenant Purchase farm. Forty acres, price six thousand fifty dollars, all stock and machinery included. Diversified irrigated farm, raising grapes, tomatoes, cantaloupes and watermelons, sweet and field corn, hay and grain. They have six cows, hogs

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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Film copy on SIS roll 28, frame 1036.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Dorothea Lange contracted polio as a young girl. She learned professional photography skills while working in New York in her early 20s, and then landed in San Francisco where she ran a portrait business catering to the city's wealthy elite. Her second husband, Paul Taylor, helped her to get out into the fields with the destitute pickers, who she'd treat like portrait subjects with empathy and identification with her subjects. When the Depression hit, she captured crowded breadlines. In the late 1930s Dorothea Lange had been hired by the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration - to photograph Dust Bowl refugees escaped into California from the Midwest and her images went far beyond bureaucratic reportage. A skilled portraitist, Lange might not have been able to change government policies, but her images for the FSA were picked up by newspapers across the country. John Steinbeck used them for inspiration in his 1939 Dust Bowl tale "The Grapes of Wrath."

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washington yakima valley nitrate negatives lot 304 dorothea lange photo price six thousand fifty dollars tenant purchase farm six cows edgar hardt farm forty acres field corn ultra high resolution high resolution great depression farm security administration stockphoto raw image photo online free american farmers library of congress
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01/01/1939
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Dorothea Lange, FSA, HD

Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.
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united states
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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washington yakima valley nitrate negatives lot 304 dorothea lange photo price six thousand fifty dollars tenant purchase farm six cows edgar hardt farm forty acres field corn ultra high resolution high resolution great depression farm security administration stockphoto raw image photo online free american farmers library of congress