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Title
Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Photographs

Lange, Dorothea

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1935-05
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 002296-E
Topics
California -- Shafter
California -- Kern County
Migrant agricultural laborers
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Date and title from Library of Congress.
Content: Inscription on verso reads: House trailer, along the highway (in potato season) near Shafter, Calif. Feb. 1936.
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: 21951
TMS Object Number: 002296-E
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5fdff1c0-73e8-0136-e968-21525d875d62
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1935: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b061c890-73ea-0136-50f5-054be8e2333a

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b061c890-73ea-0136-50f5-054be8e2333a

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1935). Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b061c890-73ea-0136-50f5-054be8e2333a

Wikipedia Citation

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Transient potato workers camping along the highway. Near Shafter, California