Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at Shafter, California
June 1938
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18 × 24.5 cm (7 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.5 × 25.5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4298
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC (Archive - Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA); gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2014
Terra Firma: Landscapes from the Photo and Media Arts Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, July 3 - September 28, 2014.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left inverted in graphite: face 18 x 13 1/2 picas; center inverted in graphite circled: 6; center perpendicular in graphite circled: 6; center in graphite: 18167-D; by FSA, along right edge perpendicular stamped in black ink with border: PLEASE NOTE: / Kindly Return Unused Photos / to the Division of Information, / Farm Security Administration, / Washington, D.C.; bottom left stamped in black ink: PLEASE CREDIT / F.S.A. / FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION / PHOTO BY: LANGE; across bottom edge inverted typed: FSA camp for migrant agricultural workers at Shafter, Calif, June, 1938
Wikidata ID
Q64146690