The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Six words in quotation marks, holding a whole year. Seven months out of the drought area, and one of the few captions where the family's own voice survives instead of a description of them.
- Archive caption
- Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, baby sick, car trouble." U.S. 99 near Tracy, California
- Creator
- Dorothea Lange
- Date
- 1937-02
- Credit
- Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives
- Rights
- US Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information collection — LoC states the contents are in the public domain and free to use and reuse; work of the US federal government · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Dorothea Lange. “"Broke, baby sick, car trouble.".” 1937-02. Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017769893/. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 762, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/QcEYXx4d87xRlzMp/762
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