Dorothea Lange
Annual Clean up Day, Women of Congregation of Wheeley's Church, Gordonton, North Carolina

ArtistAmerican, 1895–1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Annual Clean up Day, Women of Congregation of Wheeley's Church, Gordonton, North Carolina
  • Women of the congregation of Wheeley's Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina
DateJuly 1939, printed 1976
PlaceGordonton, North Carolina, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 11/16 × 13 1/2 in. (24.6 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number76.400
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso upper left in pencil reading vertically "RS 53142[underlined] / F34-20017"
bottom right in pencil "Lange"
verso center a stamp reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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