Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to find work in the California harvest, between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona
May 1937
Dorothea Lange
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: 19.5 × 24.5 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.8 × 25.4 cm (8 3/16 × 10 in.) -
Accession Number
2016.191.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Santa Monica Auctions, Santa Monica, CA, 28 June 2004); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, top left stamped in red ink inverted and crossed out with graphite: 8 NOV 2164 / M DEC 562 / N SEP 10 71; by unknown hand, top center in black ink: 6; top center stamped in black ink: PLEASE CREDIT / F.S.A. / FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION / PHOTO BY: LANGE; by unknown hand, top right ink red ink circled: 6863-C[?]; upper right stamped in black ink: Please Return Unused Photos / to Division of Information / Farm Security Administration. / Washington, D.C.; across center perpendicular printed in purple ink: Family of 9 from near Ft. Smith, Ark., on their way to find work on the Calif. harvest. Between Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz. Fourteen such cars were passed one afternoon on this highway.; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 16615 e; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite circled: MAC [underlined] / 4 x 3 1/2 / Page 17 [circled] / 3364 Y [crossed out in red ink] L [circled]; lower left stamped in red ink: AUG 27 1939; by unknown hand, bottom left in black ink: VIN 00946; by unknown hand, bottom center in black grease pencil: Immigrant workers
Wikidata ID
Q64146730