"Broke,_baby_sick,_and_car_trouble!"_-_Dorothea_Lange's_photo_of_a_Missouri_family_of_five_in_the_vicinity_of_Tracy,_California.jpg

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English: Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" (LOC description) N.B. The sign just visible in front of the truck confirms the other version on the LoC site is correct, not the mirror image version seen in the original scan this is based on.

Українська: Відреставрована фотографія лютого 1937 року, на якій зображена сім’я з п’яти осіб, фермери з Міссурі , на федеральному шосе 99 поблизу Трейсі , Каліфорнія , які рятуються від семимісячної посухи.

Date

February 1937

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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID fsa.8b38633 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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Author



Alternative names	Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; Dorothea Nutzhorn; Dorothea Lange Taylor; Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange; Dorothea Lange
Description	American-German journalist, photojournalist, photographer, documentarian and artist
Date of birth/death	26 May 1895	11 October 1965
Location of birth/death	Hoboken	San Francisco
Work location	United States of America ; San Francisco
Authority file	: Q230673 VIAF : 77594538 ISNI : 0000000368538723 ORCID : 0000-0002-9833-7917 ULAN : 500007674 LCCN : n79100159 WorldCat

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Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden ( talk ) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

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	This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons ( Featured pictures ) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here . This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia ( Featured pictures ) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here . If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license , be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it .

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 6 February 2023 . It was captioned as follows:

English: Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99 .

Other languages:

Čeština : Pětičlenná rodina na dálnici U.S. Route 99 u kalifornského města Tracy se snaží uniknout z oblasti dlouhodobého sucha v roce 1937.

Deutsch : In der Umgebung von Tracy , Kalifornien: eine fünfköpfige Familie aus Missouri auf dem U.S. Highway 99 , sieben Monate nach dem Dust Bowl .

English : Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99 .

Español : Familia de Missouri de cinco en la Ruta Federal 99 en las cercanías de Tracy, California , tras siete meses de abandonar el área de sequía.

Français : Une famille arrêtée sur le bord de l' U.S. Route 99 près de Tracy en Californie (États-Unis). Photo prise par Dorothea Lange en 1937.

Italiano : Nei dintorni di Tracy in California (USA). Una famiglia di 5 persone proveniente dallo Stato del Missouri sulla strada Route 99, a sette mesi dall'abbandono dell'area secca ( dust bowl ).

Magyar : Ötfős család Missouriból a 99-es úton, hét hónapja úton az aszályos területről (Tracy, Kalifornia , Amerikai Egyesült Államok )

Nederlands : Gezin uit Missouri dat tijdens de crisisjaren de Dust Bowl probeert te ontvluchten

Português : Fotografia restaurada de fevereiro de 1937, mostrando uma família de cinco pessoas, fazendeiros do Missouri , na Rodovia Federal 99 , nas proximidade de Tracy, Califórnia , fugindo a sete meses da área de seca.

Slovenščina : Okolica mesta Tracy ( en ) , Kalifornija (ZDA). Misurijska družina s petimi člani, ustavljena sedem mesecev po prašnih viharjih ob avtocesti 99 ( en ) . Fotografijo je leta 1937 posnela Dorothea Lange .

Македонски : Петчлено семејство бегалци од сушата во Мисури заглавени на патот 99 кај Трејси , Калифорнија, 1937 г.

Українська : Відреставрована фотографія лютого 1937 року, на якій зображена сім’я з п’яти осіб, фермери з Міссурі , на федеральному шосе 99 поблизу Трейсі , Каліфорнія , які рятуються від семимісячної посухи.

Licensing

This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright .

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February 1937

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