Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby

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Title
Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1936-11
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 009925-E
Topics
California -- Sacramento (Calif.)
California -- Sacramento County
Internal migrants
Poverty
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Title and date from Library of Congress.
Content: Caption continues: Father said "They call me a road hog and a bum; but if I am, how did that boy get into the eighth grade." American River camp, near Sacramento, California.
Version identification: FSA Collection contains two copies of this photograph. Copy 2 cropped.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
TMS ID: 22837
TMS Object Number: 009925-E
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f88c5ca0-82d1-0136-874d-5d80bf6d9320
Rights Statement
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1936. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86db71e0-82d4-0136-5921-061a7677b47e

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86db71e0-82d4-0136-5921-061a7677b47e

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1936). Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86db71e0-82d4-0136-5921-061a7677b47e

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Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby