Dorothea Lange
Drought Refugees from Oklahoma, Blythe, California

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Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)American, 1895–1965

CultureAmerican

Titles

Drought Refugees from Oklahoma, Blythe, California
Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. Blythe, California

DateAugust 1936, printed 1976

Place depictedBlythe, California, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 9/16 × 10 1/2 in. (26.8 × 26.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.395

Not on view

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"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 "RS 53142[underlined] / F34-9666"
bottom right in pencil "Lange"

verso center a stamp reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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