Object number:
A67.137.97204
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Housewive's Market - 8th & Webster
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
1952
Material / Technique:
gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
H: 4.813 in, W: 6.719 in
Credit line:
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
note: 1955 license plate Filed in contemporary Lange work print file #26, with the following inscription: #26 Oakland & East Bay Consumers & Relationships, Wartime & Post-war (1942-1955)
Concepts:
reflection; sign; jacket; shoe; advertisement; beauty parlor; sidewalk; license plate; Victorian; wood; screen door; door; liquor store; African American; men; man; window; automobile; male; adult; pedestrian; barber shop; store front
Places:
Oakland
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