Steeping with irony, photojournalist Dorothea Lange
Lange took a few different photographs of this sadly ironic billboard with families camped behind it for some limited shelter.
Title: Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California
Date Created/Published: 1938 Nov.
Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-018619-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b32706 (digital file from original neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs.