Object number:
A67.137.38011.5
Object name:
photograph
Title:
Melons- Early, Early in the Morning
Maker:
Dorothea Lange
Date made:
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 printed on Agfa photopaper. Lange number stamped on verso. Contact sheet shows negatives of the 4 by 5 inch format.
Content description:
Original description is "Melons- Early, Early in the Morning. Imperial Valley, Calif. on Mexico-US border." Two images of a close up of a person working in a field picking melons. One image of two people working in a field picking melons with a small mountain in the background. One image of a group of people walking in a road between melon crops.
Concepts:
Dorothea Lange Project: California in the Depression
Places:
Imperial Valley; California
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