Families / Mothers & children / Huts / Migrant laborers

Families / Mothers & children / Huts / Migrant laborers
Source :NARA-NWDNS
NaraID :83-G-44360

Photographer :Lange, Dorothea
Personal Name :N/A
Topical Name :Highway 87
Geographical Name :N/A
Institution Name :N/A

Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Date :11/00/1940

State :AZ
Country :USA

On Arizona Highway 87, south of Chandler. Maricopa County, Arizona. Children in a democracy. A migratory family living in a trailer in an open field. No sanitation, no water. They came from Amarillo, Texas. Pulled bolls near Amarillo, picked cotton near Roswell, New Mexico, and in Arizona. Plan to return to Amarillo at close of cotton picking season for work on WPA.