Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium | Photo and Document Gallery | Great Depression in Washington State | Dorothea Lange in Yakima Valley | Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is trying to support three boys by picking pears.
Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is trying to support three boys by picking pears. Just arrived from Minnesota, she used to work in a restaurant there. Oldest boy, age ten, helped carry ladder from tree to tree Photograph made at end of day (temperature 106 degrees) when she returned from orchard. Yakima Valley, Washington. Photograph from the Library of Congress American Memory collection for the Great Depression in Washington State Project.
