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Author Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
Title Photographs of social and economic conditions during the Great Depression, taken under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration of the United States Government [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.
Imprint 1935-1939.
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Description 27 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26.4 x 34 cm. and smaller.
Note Title devised by cataloger.
The items included herein by Lange were produced for the Resettlement Administration/Farm Security Administration but were later assembled as a group by Lange for the NYPL-Picture Collection. For other views taken by Lange under the auspices of the RA/FAS see NYPG93-F216, NYPG93-F218.
Titles, captions, photographer's credit, dates, negative numbers inscribed in pencil or ink, verso on some items.
Photographer's stamps, verso on some items.
Printing data inscribed in pencil, verso on some items.
Restricted Access Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Summary Views include portraits, landscapes and still lifes depicting the social and economic upheavals of the Great Depression in various parts of the country.
Cite As: Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms Of Use Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding Aids Detailed inventory available.
Subject Abandoned building.
African Americans.
Agricultural equipment.
Agricultural laborers.
Automobiles.
City & town life.
Clothing & dress.
Couples.
Croplands.
Depressions.
Disaster victims.
Domestic economic assistance.
Dwellings.
Families.
Farmers.
Farmhouses.
Farming.
Farm life.
Fences.
Ferries.
Fireplaces.
Grinding wheels.
Hides & skins.
Lanterns.
Log cabins.
Men.
Migrant laborers.
Monuments & memorials.
Mothers & children.
Onions.
Poor persons.
Rivers.
Sculpture.
Sharecroppers.
Shoes.
Slums.
Unemployed.
Water carriers.
Women.
Alabama.
California.
Calipatria (Calif.)
Childress County (Tex.)
Coachella Valley (Calif.)
Eutah (Ala.)
Hall County (Tex.)
Mississippi.
North Carolina.
Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania.
San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)
Tennessee.
Texas.
Genre/Form Landscapes.
Portraits.
Still life photographs.
Photographic prints.
Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Added Author United States. Farm Security Administration.
United States. Resettlement Administration.
Call No. MFZ (Lange) 93-6313
Research Call Number MFZ (Lange) 93-6313