Gelatin silver contact sheet printed on Agfa photopaper. Lange number stamped on verso. Contact sheet shows negatives of the 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches format.
Content description:
Original description is "Dump dweller near Bakersfield, 50 ft. off the highway: 'Over population is the trouble. Drop 'em in the ocean & give the country to the Japs'." Images show an older man in a coat and cap seated on a chair outside a tent, reading a newspaper.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression
Places:
Bakersfield, California
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