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Abandoned farm, Dust Bowl

Photograph
1938 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

photographic print on paper


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleAbandoned farm, Dust Bowl (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
photographic paper, photography
Brief description
Photograph by Dorothea Lange. 'Abandoned farm, Dust Bowl'. Coldwater district, near Dalhail, Texas. June 1938.
Physical description
photographic print on paper
Dimensions
  • Image height: 380mm (Note: 15 x 19 1/2 inches: taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1973)
  • Image width: 493mm
Credit line
Acquired from The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. in 1973.
Object history
Along with photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange worked for the American government’s Farm Security Administration programme during the Great Depression of the 1930's. The F.S.A. was set up to relieve poverty in rural areas but also involved photographing conditions faced by displaced farmers who had been hit by the Depression and by drought. Lange’s Californian Migrant Mother is one of the most widely known of all photographs; the tightly composed, highly concentrated composition has made it an icon of socially committed photography.
Place depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1973
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.84-1973

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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