Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control station, San Francisco, California

April 1942

Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

This is a black and white photograph of a street scene. It shows a line of people with their belongings standing along a sidewalk next to a building. In the front, there are numerous bags and suitcases piled up. The street is lined with cars, and a sign for a drugstore is visible above. The clothing and hats worn by the individuals suggest an earlier era. The image captures a moment of organization and waiting in a busy city.
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Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to John Dixon, her son, Orinda, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 1 November 2016; gift to NGA, 2018.

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Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, center in graphite perpendicular: A92; lower left in graphite: 6; bottom right: J113

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