Object number:
A67.137.52017.5
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Woman in habit, Public Baths building
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
1952
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 2.25 inches by 2.25 inches format.
Content description:
Original description is "NYC / 1952." One image of a building with a sign that reads "Free Public Bath of the City of New York / Erected in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Two." Image a man pushing a bin on wheels on cobblestone. Image of a seated woman wearing a habit. Image of a person reaching down toward a man crouched next to a wall.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: Post War California Urban Life
Places:
New York City, New York
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