Formerly enslaved woman, Alabama, 1938, printed 1950s

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 18.75 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.2

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite underlined: AnD; across top: "EX SLAVE WITH A LONG MEMORY"; top right: PC / # 2 1/2 / F11 / 6 sec; upper center in blue ink: 38164; bottom left corner on white label in graphite: F80

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to Helen Dixon, her daughter-in-law, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 29 December 2000; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser