Museum artifact

Children of migratory pea pickers, Brawley camp

Three years after Nipomo: another camp, another set of pea pickers' children, still unnamed. These are the ones who lived long enough to be asked. Nobody asked them. The wall ends on the question rather than on an answer. February 1939 · Br

Children of migratory pea pickers, Brawley camp
Children of migratory pea pickers, Brawley campFebruary 1939 · Brawley, California
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The photograph, the source, and the unknowns

Three years after Nipomo: another camp, another set of pea pickers' children, still unnamed. These are the ones who lived long enough to be asked. Nobody asked them. The wall ends on the question rather than on an answer.

Archive caption
Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp, California
Creator
Dorothea Lange
Date
1939-02
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
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Dorothea Lange. “Children of migratory pea pickers, Brawley camp.” 1939-02. Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017771598/. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 765, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/QcEYXx4d87xRlzMp/765

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