Nettie Featherston and her family were trying to get to California when they ran out of money in Carey, Texas, in 1937. A local cotton grower took pity on the family and hired them to harvest his cotton.

"If you die, you're dead. That's all." Those are the words that Nettie Featherston was quoted as uttering by Dorothea Lange in 1938. This is a family who had been forced off their farm in Oklahoma and intended to get to California to find migrant work. They ran out of money in Childress, Texas.

Nov 3, 2023 · Lange met Nettie Featherston while working on that same FSA project. Like Turpen, Featherston’s family had been forced off their farm in Oklahoma. On their way to California to find work, they ran out of money and found themselves stranded in Childress, Texas.

Aug 30, 2016 · Nettie Featherston, with her firm, lined face, slender body, and wind-blown hair, is known to thousands as the subject of “Woman of the Plains,” a series of photographs taken by Dorothea Lange in 1938 as part of the Farm Security Administration’s study of …

— Nettie Featherston to Dorothea Lange. At Oakland Museum of California, our collection of California Art includes Dorothea Lange's personal archive, a gift from the artist that includes 40,000 negatives and more than 6,000 vintage prints, field notes, and personal memorabilia.

Dec 7, 2024 · In 1938, Nettie Featherston was captured in a powerful photograph taken by Dorothea Lange, an image that freezes a moment of grit and despair from a family’s struggle during the Great Depression. Nettie, the wife of a migrant farmer, and her family had set out to reach California, searching for a better life.

Mar 1, 2024 · When Lange photographed her on a North Texas farm, 40-year-old Nettie Featherston was accustomed to a life of hard labor and poverty. She and her family had left Oklahoma seeking work in California when they ran out of …

Aug 21, 2016 · “If you die, you’re dead – that’s all.” Year after this photo was first published and exhibited, this previously unidentified lady was determined to be a woman named Nettie Fetherston. For more on her, see Nettie Featherston–1938.

Nettie Featherston died on October 19, 1984. Although no longer with us, her legacy as the "Woman of the High Planes" will forever be captured in Lange's iconic photograph (Ganzel Group Communications).

Aug 28, 2024 · Nettie was the wife of a migrant farmer. She and her family were trying to get to California when they ran out of money in Carey, Texas, in 1937. A local cotton grower took pity on them and hired them to harvest his cotton.