A67.137.42111.3

Object number:

A67.137.42111.3

Object name:

photograph

Title:

Soldier, Trailer Home

Maker:

Dorothea Lange

Date made:

September 1944

Material / Technique:

Gelatin silver print

Credit line:

Gift of Paul S. Taylor

In Copyright

Oakland Museum of California

Physical description:

Gelatin silver contact sheet printed on Agfa photo paper. Back of contact sheet stamped with Lange's number. Contact sheet shows 3.25 inch by 4.25 inch negatives.

Content description:

Images show the back of a mobile home trailer with a man in uniform. Original description is "Sept. '44 Soldier, Trailer Home. One of 2 Brothers - Air Corps. Spending Last Furlough at Home, in El Cerrito Auto Camp. Has Read Joyce, Farrell, Wolfe - want to be a writer but has had no education. "You Can't Just Say the Sunset is Purty" Mother brought up 4 boys by working in laundry. Listens to town meeting of the Air.".

Concepts:

Dorothea Lange Project: Richmond Shipyards

Places:

El Cerrito, California

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