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Listen: The World ProgramMigrant worker cleaning her daughter's scalp - Belle Glade, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Girls--Florida--Palm Beach County--Belle Glade
Children--Florida--Palm Beach County--Belle Glade
Women--Florida--Palm Beach County--Belle Glade
Mothers and daughters--Florida--Palm Beach County--Belle Glade
Migrant agricultural laborers
Farm workers
Agriculture
Migrant labor
New Deal, 1933-1939
Depressions--1929--United States
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
The image was created by the New Deal program, Farm Security Administration (originally the Resettlement Administration) in order to demonstrate the hardships of farm workers during the Great Depression.
The original image is stored in the Farm Security Administration Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Image #: LC-USF34- 051022-E
Original image caption: Young woman packinghouse worker from Tennessee, trying to get the black muck, which causes an itchy rash and sores and scabs on scalp, out of her oldest child's hair. The water is from the dirty canal nearby. She has three other children. Belle Glade, Florida.
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