Research Catalog

Title

Photographs of the Great Plains, including Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and South Dakota [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.

Author

Lange, Dorothea

Publication

ca. 1935-1962.

Details

Additional Authors

• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• United States. Resettlement Administration.
• Romana Javitz Collection.

Description

15 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 31.8 x 26.1 cm. and smaller.

Summary

Views of the Great Plains, many depicting farmlands and farmhouses, portraits of farmers, and rural scenes in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and South Dakota as well as unidentified locales.

Subject

• Abandoned buildings
• Business enterprises
• Carts & wagons
• Churches
• Corn
• Croplands
• Depressions
• Dwellings
• Farmers
• Farmhouses
• Farming
• Farm life
• Farms
• General stores
• Hay
• Men
• Migrant laborers
• Plains
• Railroad facilities
• Roads
• Spires
• Telephone lines
• Water towers
• Wheat
• Gould (Okla.)
• Memphis (Tex.)
• Nebraska
• Oklahoma
• South Dakota
• Texas

Genre/Form

• Landscapes.
• Portraits.
• Photographic prints.
• Silver gelatin photographic prints.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Collection stamps, verso on some items.
• Captions, titles, locales, dates, negative numbers inscribed in pencil and/or ink, verso on some items.
• Photographer's stamps, verso on some items.
• Some items included herein by Lange were taken under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration and/or Farm Security Administration but were later assembled by Lange as a group for the NYPL-Picture Collection. For other views by Lange taken for the RA/FSA see records NYPG93-F216, NYPG93-F219.
• Printing data inscribed in pencil, 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) 93-6312

OCLC

NYPG93-F218

Author

Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

Title

Photographs of the Great Plains, including Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and South Dakota [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.

Imprint

ca. 1935-1962.

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

United States. Farm Security Administration.

United States. Resettlement Administration.

Romana Javitz Collection.

Research Call Number

MFZ (Lange) 93-6312