Drought Refugee,Yakima Valley,Washington,WA,Farm Security Administration,FSA

Title: 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.'
Creator(s): Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1939 Aug.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 28, frame 1066.
Subjects:
United States--Washington--Yakima Valley.
Nitrate negatives.
Bookmark /fsa2000003944/PP/
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