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
- Source record
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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/face/1008
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