Object number:
A67.137.38267.3
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Last West - Ma Burnham
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
1938
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. Back of contact sheet stamped with Lange's number. Contact sheet shows negatives of the 4 inch by 5 inch format.
Content description:
Images show a woman sitting in a chair on the porch of a wooden home and a copy of The San Francisco News with the headline "Action on the Migrant Problem". Original description reads "Last West - Ma Burnham".
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: An American Exodus
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