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Pea pickers in camp
Pea pickers in camp

Pea pickers in camp

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965)
Date1936
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 9/16 inches (19.05 × 24.29 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 1/16 inches (20.32 × 25.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2011.76.17
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso top, in black ink: "Kindly use the following credit line: / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPH BY Lange".
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Transient—Pea Picker"; On sheet verso, center, in pencil: “Pea Pickers in Calif / "Man, I’ve picked peas from / Calipartria to Ukiah this life is / simplicity boiled down""; On sheet verso, center, in pencil: "RA1804C"; Blue stamp on sheet verso, upper right, in blue ink: "RA 1804C"; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "PF 77562”.
MarkingsResettlement Administration Credit stamp on back of print
On View
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DescriptionSeated man and woman beside car.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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