Hitch-hiking from Joplin, Missouri, to a sawmill job in Arizona. On U.S. 66 near Weatherford, western Oklahoma, August 12, 1938, printed c. 1960s

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 19.5 cm (9 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.75

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, upper center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE 4-3880; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: DLA-00054-SP; bottom right, partially erased: D [illegible] 091

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; private collection, CA; (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 20 October 2009; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1978: Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 69.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 24.