Canaday Family, Page One

Mrs. Canaday and baby, Ola, Idaho, October 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

This is one of my favorite Dorothea Lange photos. She took many at the Ola Self-Help Sawmill in the small village of Ola, in 1938. Three years later, Russell Lee, another Farm Security Administration photographer, took more photos at the same location. By looking through all of the photos and captions, I was able to determine the last name of this unidentified woman and her baby. I talked to the woman's granddaughter and learned that both the woman and the baby are still very much alive. But they were not interested in being interviewed.

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