Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men are sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway, Gordonton, North Carolina, July 1939, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.5 × 34.3 cm (9 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)

sheet: 25.6 × 35.4 cm (10 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2018.189.14

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, possibly by artist, upper center in blue ink: 38147 [circled] Crossroads store, Alabama. 1937; across bottom in graphite: [arrow] 6" [arrow]

Provenance

Estate of Blossom and Ben Norman, Los Angeles; (sale, Santa Monica Auctions, CA, 21 November 2016); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Anonymous