1939: Reports from the Field
In 1939, Dorothea Lange worked in California, North Carolina, and the Pacific Northwest on assignment for the Farm Security Administration. She submitted the texts and photographs below to the FSA office in Washington, DC. Those below include six of her seventy-five General Captions of 1939; all are presented in the book, DARING TO LOOK. [make link to Book]
February 1939: Imperial Valley, California
Migrant family with eleven children
July 1939: Person County, North Carolina
Hillside farm
Annual Cleaning-Up Day
A Country Church on “Meeting Sunday”
1964: Dorothea Lange remembers North Carolina in July 1939 [in Flash version only]
October 1939: Malheur County, Oregon
Malheur County
Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Southeast Oregon
The Soper Family