Title:
Untitled -Disasters of Shacktown Communities
Creator/Contributor:
Dorothea Lange
Date:
February 19, 1940
Identifier:
LNG41487.1
Format:
photonegative
unknown
photography
Notes:
U.S. Department of Agriculture - Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Exhibits and Photographic Unit Location: Across the
Natomas Levee, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., Calif. Subject Heading: Community Studies Rural Shacktowns. Division: Econ.
Infor. Detailed Description: Disasters of Shacktown Communities. See also Neg. No. 41436. Refer to General Caption #1.
This Settlement is just outside the city limits. No police or fire protection, and no nearby telephone. Home of young family
from Oklahoma. Husband works in a cannery, house self-built. Young mother bemoaned loss of her canned food more than the loss
of her household possessions.
Subject:
Sacramento; Department of Agriculture; Natomas Levee; shacktown; fire; shack; dresser; wood; building; tree; smoke; post;
furniture
Collection:
Dorothea Lange Collection
Independent Work (1940-1941) Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) Disaster, Shacktown