Object number:
A67.137.94212
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Riding the Freights
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
circa 1938
Material / Technique:
Film photonegative
Credit line:
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
in Lange's hand, on original folder containing this photograph (pencil): On the Road - / see d. r - Labor on the move and by someone else (ink): #37 F 151 prints / Mostly California 1935 / a few elsewhere - Oklahoma
Concepts:
migrant farmworker; boxcar; man; fence; silhouette; telephone pole; adult; male; train; railroad
Organizations:
Southern Pacific Railroad
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