Eighty year old woman living in squatters’ camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. “If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you – all you’ve got to live with”
1936 Nov.
photographer: Dorothea Lange
Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29843
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Aww that’s a good one I have not seen, she looks like she has a lot of pluck and gumption.
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She sure does. She must have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations to end up in a squatters camp so late in her life.