Gelatin silver contact sheet printed on Agfa photopaper. Lange number stamped on verso. Contact sheet shows negatives of the 4 inches by 5 inches format and of the 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches format.
Content description:
Original description is "Imperial Valley - Water Supply and Ditchbank Dwellers." One image shows a pot over a fire pit with a cornfield in the background. One image shows a man using a well pole to draw water from an irrigation ditch. One image shows a cluster of buckets and barrels next to an irrigation ditch. One image shows a cluster of makeshift dwellings along an irrigation ditch.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression
Places:
Imperial Valley
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