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Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California by Dorothea Lange — VisualArtsDB

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

1936

Medium: Gelatin silver print, from a portfolio of ten FSA photographs (1975)
Dimensions: Image: 23.9 × 18.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 28 cm (13 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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