Source: Shorpy
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Many Oklahoma residents were displaced by the drought of 1936. Hoping for work in the cotton fields, families fled to California and camped on the roadside while they looked for employment.
In this photo, a mother of seven is breastfeeding her child on their roadside campsite in Blythe, California.
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