Migrant Family in Kern County
Photo by Dorothea Lange of a migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had gone back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. 1936
- Date
- 1936-02
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 817 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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