Young penniless family hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California, 8b38618
Young penniless family hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers.
- Date
- 1936-11
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 8,001 × 4,672 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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