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Cotton wagon, Eloy, Arizona

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965)
DateNovember 1940
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (18.42 × 23.65 cm)
Mount: 7 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (18.42 × 23.65 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4211
Signednone
InscribedOn label attached to mount verso, lower right, in black pen: "Eloy, Arizona"
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "#432"; On mount verso, upper right, in black pencil: "33" [circled]; On mount verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "J78".
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DescriptionVintage print of cotton pickers, dumping their sacks into the field wagons.Exhibition History

Dignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.

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