Images and Links: The FSA and Rural America

Figure 1. Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother," 1936. Known widely as “Migrant Mother,” the actual title of this photograph, and the others in the series that Lange shot in a California migrant labor camp in 1936, is “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.”  View the series of photos.

 

Figure 2. Walker Evans, “Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.” Source: Library of Congress

Figure 3. Walker Evans, “Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama.” Source: Library of Congress

Figure 4. Margaret Bourke-White, “Maiden Lane, Georgia,” 1937

More information about this collaborative project between Erskine Caldwell and Bourke-White is available here and here.