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Drought Refugee, California

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Drought Refugee, California

1937

Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed 1949
Dimensions: 13 9/16 × 10 9/16" (34.5 × 26.8 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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Mary Ann Savage, a faithful Mormon all her life, Toquerville, Utah

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Drought Refugee, California by Dorothea Lange — VisualArtsDB