Object number:
A67.137.8867
Object name:
photonegative
Title:
Matanuska Colonists on Train, Bus and Ship
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
circa 1935
Material/Technique:
Film photonegative
Dimensions:
W: 2.25 in, H: 2.25 in
Credit line:
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
Lange #s 35262-35270 are of the arrival of Minnesota farmers bound for Alaska to form the Matanuska settlement.
Concepts:
migrant farmworker; ship; smokestack
Places:
Minnesota; Alaska; Matanuska, Alaska
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