Eighty-year-old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you—all you've got to live with", November 1936

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19 × 24.4 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 25.5 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2018.189.5

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 4; on verso, top right printed in blue ink: RA 9860C; by unknown hand, center in graphite: RA9860—C; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: Eighty year old woman living in / squatters camp on the outskirts of / Bakersfield Calif.; lower left stamped in black ink: Kindly use the following credit line: / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPH BY _Lange; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: CR001

Provenance

(Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 31 May 2016; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser