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Note: Two images showing the mother and children in the tent, taken at a medium range and from an angle, apparently were never received by the Library of Congress. These images may be found in the Dorothea Lange Archive External, Oakland Museum 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607.
Images in the series found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division are shown below:
1.) Caption: "Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children. March 1936." (re-touched version)
Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-9058-C (film negative)
1a.) Caption: "Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children. March 1936."
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-12883 (digital file from print)
Note: This is an unretouched version of image #1, and shows a thumb in the immediate foreground on the right side.
2.) Caption: "Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children.Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,000 people in this camp were destitute."
Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-9093-C (film neg.)
3.) Caption: "Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged 32, father is a native Californian. March 1936."
Reproduction Number:LC-USF34-9095 (film negative)
5.) Caption: "Nipomo, Calif. March 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children and their mother, aged 32. The father is a native Californian."
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-58355 (film copy neg.)
Note: Original negative was declared missing; original negative number was: LC-USF34-9098-C.
