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An unemployed lumberjack with his wife in a migrant workers camp for the bean harvest, Marion County, Oregon. The man has his social security number tattooed on his arm. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

OREGON: LUMBERJACK, 1939.
An unemployed lumberjack with his wife in a migrant workers camp for the bean harvest, Marion County, Oregon. The man has his social security number tattooed on his arm. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, August 1939

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COAL MINER'S CHILD, 1938. Coal miners child using a hole in the door to enter

COAL MINER'S CHILD, 1938.
Coal miner's child using a hole in the door to enter a bedroom with a smoking pipe in one hand and a gun in the other in Bertha Hill, West Virginia. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1938

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GIRL SITTING ON BED, 1936. One of Edgar Allens children sitting on the bed of his farmhouse

GIRL SITTING ON BED, 1936.
One of Edgar Allen's children sitting on the bed of his farmhouse. There are no sheets, pillowcases, or pillows (other than makeshift) in use. Bedding usually consists of castoff rags and a few old blankets. Near Milford, Iowa. Photograph, December, 1936, by Russell Lee. From the Farm Security Administration photography project

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