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

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.15

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

Image Use

This image is unavailable for download.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .
Contact us about image usage .

Inscription

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

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

Susan Steinhauser