Object number:
A67.137.35006.5
Object name:
photograph
Title:
The Road People - US 40 Near Stockton
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
1935
Material / Technique:
Gelatin silver print
Credit line:
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Physical description:
Gelatin silver contact sheet printed on Agfa photopaper. Lange number stamped on verso. Contact sheet shows negatives of the 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches format.
Content description:
Original description is "The Road People - US 40 Near Stockton - Migrant Laborer from the Harvest Fields of Dakotas and Calif." Two images show a man in a hat walking down a dirt road through a rural landscape with a bedroll slung from one shoulder. Two images show a man walking along a train track with a pack on his back.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: Bindlestiffs; Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression
Places:
Stockton, California; California
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