Object number:
A67.137.35203.5
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Grandmother from Oklahoma
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
March 1935
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:
Original description is "Grandmother from Oklahoma." Three images show an older woman in a sunbonnet seated inside a makeshift dwelling. One image shows the back of an automobile with furniture strapped to it.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression
Places:
Imperial Valley
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