CA - Drought-stricken Oklahoma family migrating to Bakersfield, California, stuck on the highway near Indio, 1936

In this poignant 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange, an Oklahoma farm family is captured on their arduous journey of self-resettlement to California, forced from their home by the devastating Dust Bowl drought. Pictured on a highway between Blythe and Indio, the family had been picking cotton in Arizona to afford food and gas, their broken-down car abandoned along the way. With Bakersfield just a day's travel away, the image encapsulates the determination and hardship of migrant families seeking a new life in the face of unimaginable adversity.

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