Migrant worker cleaning her daughter's scalp - Belle Glade, Florida

Title

• Migrant worker cleaning her daughter's scalp - Belle Glade, Florida

Image Number

• RC02700

Year

• 1939

Date Note

• January 1939.

Series Title

• General: Reference collection

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.



General Note

• The original image is stored in the Farm Security Administration Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Image #: LC-USF34- 051022-E



General Note

• 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.

Photographer/Personal Author

• Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990

Physical Description

• 1 photoprint - b&w - 10 x 8 in.

Subject Term

• Family--Florida--Palm Beach County--Belle Glade
• 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

Geographic Term

• Belle Glade (Fla.)
• Palm Beach County (Fla.)

Subject Corporate

• United States. Farm Security Administration.

Shelf Number

• Shelf number: 11855.

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