Finding Home: Found Trailer

In November 1940, Dorothea Lange photographed a migrant family living south of Chandler. This time she was working for another federal agency, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The set of photographs features four children and their grandmother. Lange’s captions state the family was previously from Texas where they picked cotton. They wound up in Chandler, living in a dilapidated trailer without running water or sanitation. The parents are not mentioned but were presumably working in the cotton fields while the grandmother tended the children. Lange features some of these photos in her “Children in a Democracy” series.