Calipatra (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks." , February 1937

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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sheet: 24.13 × 19.05 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.79

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by Dorothea Lange, center in black ink: Native of Indiana: "It's Root, hog, or die / for us folks" / California, Feb. '37; upper center printed in black ink: In a migratory labor contractor's camp near / Calipatria, California, February 24, 1937. / Migration has brought to a focus the distress of large numbers of American workers.; by unknown hand, center in graphite: Ra 16119-C; bottom center in graphite: DLA-00075-SP; bottom right in graphite: DL-GEM-011

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser