Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for unemployment benefits
January 1938, printed c. 1960s
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: 19 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.08 × 20.32 cm (9 7/8 × 8 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.61
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; private collection, CA; (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 3 July 2009; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, center stamped on angle in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE 4-3886; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: DLA-00050-SP; bottom right, partially erased: DL-C-ILL-085
Wikidata ID
Q64146797