Object number:
A67.137.38203.12
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Drought: Oklahoma Farm and Family
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
1938
Material / Technique:
Gelatin silver print
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Physical description:
Gelatin silver contact sheet. Lange number stamped on verso. Contact sheet shows negatives of format 2.25 inches by 2.25 inches.
Content description:
Original description is "This is an Oklahoma farm & family - which really represents many - of a kind and character to migrate to Calif. Drought." Nine images of people on the porch of a house. There is a metal bed frame on the porch.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: An American Exodus
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