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John, San Francisco by Dorothea Lange — VisualArtsDB

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John, San Francisco

1931

Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed 1965
Dimensions: 5 7/8 × 4 9/16" (15 × 11.6 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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Family of nine from near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on their way to find work in the California harvest, between Yuma and Phoenix, Arizona

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Calipatra (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks."

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Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for unemployment benefits

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Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California

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Lyde Wall, friend and neighbor, who makes "the world’s best apple pie", and knows everything going on for miles around, Berkeley, California

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Eighteen-year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

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Mrs. Beatty, Toquerville, Utah

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Dorothea Lange, 1953

City in transition, Oakland, California

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Children of the Weill public school shown in a flag pledge ceremony, San Francisco, California

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Scandinavian Homesteader, Great Plains, South Dakota

Scandinavian Homesteader, Great Plains, South Dakota

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Patrick Flanagan on Tubber Green, County Galway, Ireland

Patrick Flanagan on Tubber Green, County Galway, Ireland

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Street meeting, San Francisco

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