Highway to...everywhere... (1935)
Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers.
Dorothea Lange, photographer. November 1935.
Original picture:
Library of Congress, USA
© Dorothea Lange, 1935
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2023
Highway to...everywhere... (1935)
Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers.
Dorothea Lange, photographer. November 1935.
Original picture:
Library of Congress, USA
© Dorothea Lange, 1935
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2023