Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium | Photo and Document Gallery | Great Depression in Washington State | Dorothea Lange in Yakima Valley | Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota.

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve.". Photograph from the Library of Congress American Memory collection for the Great Depression in Washington State Project.

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