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Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes

Title
Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.
Author
Lange, Dorothea
Publication
193--1957.

Details

Additional Authors
Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
45 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 34.5 x 26.6 cm. and smaller.
Summary
Views consist of scenes in various urban and rural California settings depicting the social and economic upheavals of the Great Depression including unemployment, government assisted food and housing relief, migrant agricultural workers, refugees from droughts, and political and labor demonstrations. Later views consist of various landscapes and cityscapes in California.
Subject
  • Adobe buildings
  • Agricultural laborers
  • Air compressors
  • Assistance
  • Automobiles
  • Automobile service stations
  • Boat & ship industry strikes
  • Bread & soup lines
  • Bulldozers
  • Camps
  • Carts & wagons
  • Catholic churches
  • Children eating & drinking
  • City & town life
  • Clearing of land
  • Clothing & dress
  • Communists
  • Crowds
  • Cypresses
  • Demonstrations
  • Depressions
  • Deserts
  • Disaster victims
  • Domestic economic assistance
  • Dwellings
  • Economic & social conditions
  • Families
  • Food relief
  • Fountains
  • Gardens
  • Hats
  • Hosiery
  • Incinerators
  • Laborers
  • Markets
  • May Day
  • Migrant laborers
  • Mothers & children
  • Motorcycles
  • Police
  • Political parades
  • Poor Persons
  • Ragpicking
  • Refuse disposal
  • Road construction
  • Roofing tiles
  • Shelters
  • Shoes
  • Signs
  • Sleeping
  • Spires
  • Tents
  • Tramps
  • Trees
  • Trucks
  • Unemployed
  • Uniforms
  • Waitresses
  • Window displays
  • Women
  • Berkeley (Calif.)
  • California
  • Calipatria (Calif.)
  • Holtsville (Calif.)
  • Kern County (Calif.)
  • Nipomo (Calif.)
  • Sacramento (Calif.)
  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)
  • Santa Clara County (Calif.)
  • Shafter (Calif.)
  • Stockton (Calif.)
Genre/Form
  • Cityscapes.
  • Interiors.
  • Landscapes.
  • Portraits.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Collection stamps, verso on some items.
  • Captions, dates, locales, photographer's credit inscribed in pencil or ink, verso on some items.
  • Photographer's stamps, "Injury Noted" stamps, verso on some items.
  • Printing data inscribed in pencil, verso on some items.
  • Publication notes inscribed in ink, verso on some items.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Cite As (note)
  • Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Provenance (note)
  • Transfer, 1991.
Call Number
MFZ (Lange) 93-6296
OCLC
NYPG93-F198
Author
Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
Title
Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.
Imprint
193--1957.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite As:
Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms Of Use
Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding Aids
Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
Transfer, 1991.
Added Author
Romana Javitz Collection.
Research Call Number
MFZ (Lange) 93-6296
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