Dorothea Lange
Six Tenant Farmers without Farms, Hardeman County, Texas

Six Tenant Farmers without Farms, Hardeman County, Texas

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Six Tenant Farmers without Farms, Hardeman County, Texas
ArtistAmerican, 1895–1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Six Tenant Farmers without Farms, Hardeman County, Texas
  • Former Texas tenant farmers displaced by power farming
DateMay 1937, printed 1976
Place depictedHardman City, Texas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (26.7 × 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 number76.399
Not on view

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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] / F34-17265"
bottom right in pencil "D Lange"
verso center a stamp reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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