Dorothea Lange in Yakima Valley | Great Depression in Washington State | Photo and Document Gallery | Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium

Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium | Photo and Document Gallery | Great Depression in Washington State | Dorothea Lange in Yakima Valley

Photographs from Dorothea Lange's 1939 trip to the Yakima Valley, documenting migrant labor for the Farm Security Administration. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Constructing housing on half acre in Yakima shacktown.

Washington, Yakima. Sumac Park. Revival meetings are held in Yakima shacktown.

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks before picking.

Looking down on part of the Valley, approximately six miles from Yakima.

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks before picking.

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks before picking.

All Chris Adolf's children are hard workers on the new place.

All Chris Adolf's children are hard workers on the new place.

Migratory woman, originally from Texas. Yakima Valley, Washington.

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years.

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years.

Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is trying to support three boys by picking pears.

Mrs. Schrock takes good care of her family. Yakima Valley, Washington (near Wapato).

Shacktown grocery store and filling station, typical of many such small enterprises in new community (Sumac Park).

Shelter in one of the large shacktown communities around Yakima. Yakima, Washington, Sumac Park.

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley.

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley.

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley.

Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley.

Another home recently self-built in one of several shacktown communities around Yakima. Sumac Park

Motherless migrant child. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley.

Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the third year to pick hops.

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. Rent seven dollars a month.

Family living in shacktown community, rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing.

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children.

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season.

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima.

Three migratory families in "Ramblers Park." Washington, Yakima Valley.

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living."

Chris Adolf, his teams and six of his children, on their new FSA farm near Wapato.

Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three years.

Near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt. On Tenant Purchase farm. Forty acres, price six thousand fifty dollars.

Buena. Yakima Valley small town. A county which ranks fifth in the United States in value of agricultural production.

Chris Adolf, his team, and six of his children on their new FSA supported farm.

Camp of migratory families in "Ramblers Park."

Chris Adolf. "My father made me work... I learned about farming but nothing out of the books.".

West of Toppenish. On tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) Client E. Houston. Irrigated pasture.

One of Chris Adolph's daughters.

One of Chris Adolph's younger children.

Bit by bit. Building in one of several large shacktown communities around Yakima.

Camp of family with nine children who have been on the road for three years.

Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe ..."

Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota.

Washington, Yakima Valley. The valley below seen from advertised "lookout point."

Washington, Yakima Valley. The valley below seen from advertised "lookout point."

Moxee Valley district. Looking across alfalfa field, late afternoon. Shows layout of French Canadian farm.

The famed stockade. Used as jail for striking farm workers in 1933.

The famed stockade. Used as jail for striking farm workers in 1933. Building behind stockade is the courthouse.

Monument to Depression. Unfinished hotel standing in center of town. Construction abandoned after collapse of 1929.

Home of better type in shacktown, south of fairgrounds.

Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine, three weeks before picking time.

Yakima shacktown, (Sumac Park) is one of several large shacktown communities around Yakima.

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