Object number:
A67.137.41090.9
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Amana People
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
1941
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 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches format.
Content description:
No original description.Two images show an older woman in an apron and sunbonnet tending rows of plants. One image shows an older man and woman seated on a bench outside a building. One image shows a man watering an ornamental plant outside a house.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: Guggenheim Grant Trip
Places:
Iowa
Organizations:
Amana Society
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