Drought refugees. California
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Item data
Title
Drought refugees. California
Collection
Farm Security Administration Photographs
Lange, Dorothea
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lange, Dorothea (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1936-02
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: 001823-C
Subjects
California
Internal migrants
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Droughts
Genres
Notes
Acquisition: Transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991
Content: Date and title from Library of Congress.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: Print Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Identifiers
TMS ID: 21869
TMS Object Number: 001823-C
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 14.06.2401
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 83f286a0-73e7-0136-2afd-67bd2062a4db
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