Migrant from Oklahoma
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Rating |
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File Name |
0 488.jpg |
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Title |
Migrant from Oklahoma |
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Creator |
Dorothea Lange-Taylor |
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Date |
1936-04-10 |
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Description |
Former Osage County, Oklahoma deputy sheriff in front of shack, for which he paid $7.00/month: 'I was raised in a time when every man hepped himself and the lord hepped him. Now I haven't made $5.00 since [1939 11 16]. I've raised and matched 6 children back there in Osage County, I had a right smart place, but the land grabbers got me. It's like a man buying a mule, they choose only the best of them. Worlds of them are left out. When I went to farming in 1914 some of them land grabbers was farming with a plow in those days like I was. But a small man can't take the dry weather, the bugs, and all the rest that comes and make it. I stayed together as long as I could. A human being is a funny thing when he knows he's gyped he wants to take a chance somewhere else. I reckon the [Agricultural Adjustment Administration] gyped me out of my share and put me on the road.' See also number 0 489. |
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Subject-TGM |
Dwellings
Huts |
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Subject-LCSH |
Lange, Dorthea, 1895-1965 |
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Geographic Coverage |
Kern County -- California |
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Object Type |
Photographic prints |
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Format |
Image/jpg |
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Relation-Is Part Of |
National Archives |
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Rights |
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies. |
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Collection |
Steinbeck Center Photo Archive |
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Repository |
Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, SJSU |
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Note |
Acquired 1975 05 17 from National Archives (2,10USD); Published in journal: SN 7.1 (1994): 8; SR 12.1 (2015) |
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