Eighty-year-old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you—all you've got to live with"
November 1936
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 × 24.4 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.5 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.189.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 31 May 2016; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 4; on verso, top right printed in blue ink: RA 9860C; by unknown hand, center in graphite: RA9860—C; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: Eighty year old woman living in / squatters camp on the outskirts of / Bakersfield Calif.; lower left stamped in black ink: Kindly use the following credit line: / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPH BY _Lange; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: CR001