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Call Number:

PH-01258

Collection Name:

Dorothea Lange Photography Collection

Creator:

Lange, Dorothea (1895 - 1965)

No. of Items:

5 photographs

Span Dates:

1936-1938, printed later

Description:

The collection consists of five photographs by Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) that were printed later from her original negatives by the Library of Congress.

Accession No(s):

964:3462:0001-0003; 976:0018:0001-0002

Location(s):

L Box, Medium (976:0018:0001-0002)
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L Box, Large (964:3462:0001-0003)
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Closed for processing Flat File (unaccessioned copy prints of Migrant Mother)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Lange, Dorothea (1895 - 1965)
Title	Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California
Date	1936 March, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:3462:0001

Artist/Maker	Lange, Dorothea (1895 - 1965)
Title	Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown
Date	1936 August, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:3462:0002

Artist/Maker	Lange, Dorothea (1895 - 1965)
Title	Sharecropper
Date	circa 1936, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:3462:0003

Artist/Maker	Lange, Dorothea (1895 - 1965)
Title	Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California
Date	March 1936, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Accession Number	976:0018:0001

Artist/Maker	Lange, Dorothea (1895 - 1965)
Title	She lives on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma
Date	1938 June, printed later
Medium	Gelatin silver print
Credit line	Gift of Bill Stott
Accession Number	976:0018:0002

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