California Ranch -Style
Photograph
California Ranch -Style
"The Bitter Years" in California
1938
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 7 5/16 × 9 1/2 in. (18.5 × 24.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0386
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Bitter Years) 10/62 / 10) CALIFORNIA RANCH-STYLE: with money saved \ from relief payments, this family bought 20 acres of \ unimproved land in Tulare County, California and established their first home in this shack. With a \ $700 F.S.A. loan they bought stock and equipment, managed \ soon to acquire seven cows, three sows and ten acres of pasture land. This picture was taken in 1938. \ Credit: Dorothea Lange from F.S.A.
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