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
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: 19.4 × 24.6 cm (7 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.91
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The Collection of John Dixon, Orinda, CA; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 5 March 2011; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1994
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 49.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, center left in graphite perpendicular and circled: 36014-3; center in graphite: 58 Depression Series; artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: DL0030; bottom right in graphite: 47J
Wikidata ID
Q64146836