Object number:
A67.137.38148.4
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Hand in Dirt, Vagrancy Law Sign
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
July 1938
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. Lange number stamped on verso. Contact sheet shows negatives of format 2.25 inches by 2.25 inches.
Content description:
Original description is "N.C." One image of a man on a horse in front of a house. One image of a hand reaching down to the dirt. Two images of a Charleston Vagrancy Law Sign.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: An American Exodus
Places:
Charleston, South Carolina; North Carolina
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