Object number:
A67.137.35211.7
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Drought Refugee Children from Oklahoma
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
June 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 4 inches by 5 inches format and of the 2.25 inches by 2.25 inches format.
Content description:
Original description is "Drought Refugee Children from Oklahoma - Near Shaftner, Calif. - This family of 7 were camped on a flat, during the potato harvest, without tent, without water. Water from a nearby service station at 5 cents per bucket." Two images show an automobile laden with objects strapped to it. Two images show a different vehicle with furniture loaded in the back and people sitting on it. Two images show children standing and sitting near the vehicles.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression
Places:
Shafter, California
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