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Photo, Print, Drawing Age 70, She Came from Near Greeley, Nebraska, with Sister Age 65, Nephew Age 30, and Brother Age 68.

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Title

  • Age 70, She Came from Near Greeley, Nebraska, with Sister Age 65, Nephew Age 30, and Brother Age 68.

Summary

  • This photograph and the accompanying caption are by Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. After apprenticing in New York City, Lange moved to San Francisco and in 1919 established her own studio. During the 1920s and early 1930s, she worked as a portrait photographer. In 1932, wanting to see a world different from the society families she had been photographing, she began shooting San Francisco's labor unrest and urban unemployed. In 1935, she accepted a position as a staff photographer with the Federal Resettlement Administration, later renamed the Farm Security Administration. Her new job took her to the South, where she documented small towns, the lives of tenant farmers, and experimental agricultural communities. Returning to the West, Lange focused on the lives of migrant workers. In 1940, she was hired by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to produce photographs for a series of community studies in California and Arizona.

Names

  • Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1940-04-11.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--California
  • -  1940
  • -  Migrant agricultural laborers
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Portraits
  • -  Women

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph (black and white).
  • -  Original resource at: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies, Compiled ca. 1922 - ca. 1947

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669749

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Lange, Dorothea, Photographer. Age 70, She Came from Near Greeley, Nebraska, with Sister Age 65, Nephew Age 30, and Brother Age 68. California United States of America, 1940. Washington, D.C.: Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, -04-11. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669749/.

APA citation style:

Lange, D. (1940) Age 70, She Came from Near Greeley, Nebraska, with Sister Age 65, Nephew Age 30, and Brother Age 68. California United States of America, 1940. Washington, D.C.: Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, -04-11. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669749/.

MLA citation style:

Lange, Dorothea, Photographer. Age 70, She Came from Near Greeley, Nebraska, with Sister Age 65, Nephew Age 30, and Brother Age 68. Washington, D.C.: Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, -04-11. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669749/>.