Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes

Title
  1. Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.
Published by
  1. 193--1957.
Author
  1. Lange, Dorothea

Details

Additional authors
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Description
  1. 45 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 34.5 x 26.6 cm. and smaller.
Summary
  1. Views consist of scenes in various urban and rural California settings depicting the social and economic upheavals of the Great Depression including unemployment, government assisted food and housing relief, migrant agricultural workers, refugees from droughts, and political and labor demonstrations. Later views consist of various landscapes and cityscapes in California.
Subject
  1. Adobe buildings
  2. Agricultural laborers
  3. Air compressors
  4. Assistance
  5. Automobiles
  6. Automobile service stations
  7. Boat & ship industry strikes
  8. Bread & soup lines
  9. Bulldozers
  10. Camps
  11. Carts & wagons
  12. Catholic churches
  13. Children eating & drinking
  14. City & town life
  15. Clearing of land
  16. Clothing & dress
  17. Communists
  18. Crowds
  19. Cypresses
  20. Demonstrations
  21. Depressions
  22. Deserts
  23. Disaster victims
  24. Domestic economic assistance
  25. Dwellings
  26. Economic & social conditions
  27. Families
  28. Food relief
  29. Fountains
  30. Gardens
  31. Hats
  32. Hosiery
  33. Incinerators
  34. Laborers
  35. Markets
  36. May Day
  37. Migrant laborers
  38. Mothers & children
  39. Motorcycles
  40. Police
  41. Political parades
  42. Poor Persons
  43. Ragpicking
  44. Refuse disposal
  45. Road construction
  46. Roofing tiles
  47. Shelters
  48. Shoes
  49. Signs
  50. Sleeping
  51. Spires
  52. Tents
  53. Tramps
  54. Trees
  55. Trucks
  56. Unemployed
  57. Uniforms
  58. Waitresses
  59. Window displays
  60. Women
  61. Berkeley (Calif.)
  62. California
  63. Calipatria (Calif.)
  64. Holtsville (Calif.)
  65. Kern County (Calif.)
  66. Nipomo (Calif.)
  67. Sacramento (Calif.)
  68. San Francisco (Calif.)
  69. San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)
  70. Santa Clara County (Calif.)
  71. Shafter (Calif.)
  72. Stockton (Calif.)
Genre/Form
  1. Cityscapes.
  2. Interiors.
  3. Landscapes.
  4. Portraits.
  5. Photographic prints.
  6. Silver gelatin photographic prints.
Call number
  1. MFZ (Lange) 93-6296
Note
  1. Title devised by cataloger.
  2. Collection stamps, verso on some items.
  3. Captions, dates, locales, photographer's credit inscribed in pencil or ink, verso on some items.
  4. Photographer's stamps, "Injury Noted" stamps, verso on some items.
  5. Printing data inscribed in pencil, verso on some items.
  6. Publication notes inscribed in ink, verso on some items.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Cite as (note)
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Provenance (note)
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Author
  1. Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
Title
  1. Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.
Imprint
  1. 193--1957.
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Cite as:
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Terms of use
  1. Apply to the Office of Special Collections for permission to reproduce.
Finding aids
  1. Detailed inventory available.
Provenance
  1. Transfer, 1991.
Added author
  1. Romana Javitz Collection.
Research call number
  1. MFZ (Lange) 93-6296
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