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Dorothea Lange

Birth

May 25, 1895 (Hoboken, New Jersey)
Death

Oct. 13, 1965 (San Francisco, California)

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[Charles M. Russell's hand], ca. 1924-1926

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1961.421.1
[Charles M. Russell's hand, detail], ca. 1924-1926

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1961.421.2
[Charles M. Russell], ca. 1924-1926

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1961.422.1
[Charles M. Russell], ca. 1924-1926

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1961.422.2
[Charles M. Russell smoking], ca. 1924-1926

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1961.424
Childress County, Texas 1938, 1938

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.155.1
Childress County, Texas 1938, 1938

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.155.2
Early Californian. Her Family Migrated after the Civil War from Deer Creek Plantation, Mississippi, to the Great Empty Central Valley of California, where She was Born Eighty-one Years Ago. The Family Traced Lineage Back to Williamsburg, Virginia--the Fir, 1954

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.1
Young Girl, Cotton Picker, She Migrates with Her Family from Crop to Crop, and Lives Under Conditions of Deprivation. Arizona, 1941

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.10
She Picks in These Broad Fields of Cotton (Seen across the Road) and Lives in One of These Cabins. Arizona, 1941

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.11
Mary Ann Savage was a Faithful Mormon All Her Life. She Was a Plural Wife. She Was a Pioneer. She Crossed the Plains in 1856 with Her Family when She was Six Years Old. Her Mother Pushed Her Little Children across Plain and Desert in a Hand-cart. A Sister, 1933

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.12
The Portrait of Mary Ann Savage Was Made in 1931. She Died Five Years Later. Many Years Later, in 1953, Her Gravestone Was Photographed As It Stood in the Village Graveyard. Her Son, at Age 85, Recalled: "She Helped Build This Mormon Village in the Wilder, 1953

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.13
Friend and Neighbor, Who Makes "The World's Best Apple Pie," and Knows Everything Going on for Miles Around. Northern California [Lyde Wall], 1944

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.14
She Practiced the Household Arts of Her Generation. Utah, 1953, 1953

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.15
Young Mother. She Lives in a Mormon Hamlet Strung along a Small River, Five Miles Inland from the Highway. "If You Run Out of Money Here in Gunlock, You Can Go and Pick Yourself Something Out of the Garden." Gunlock, Washington County, Utah, 1953

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.16
"This is a Town where Everybody Knows Everybody." The Church is the Center of the Life. Gunlock, Washington County, Utah, 1953

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.17
Like Many Others on the Great Plains from Scandinavia, She Homesteaded where Her Son Now Farms. South Dakota, 1939

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.18
This is the Family Farmstead. South Dakota, 1939

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.19
The Woman Called "Queen" on a Sunday Morning at Church-time. North Carolina, 1939

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.2
Ex-slave with a Long Memory. Alabama, 1938

Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print
P1965.172.20