Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California (LOC)
Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California
1936 Feb.
1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
Notes:
File print filed under "Lange, Dorothea" in the
Biographical File in the Prints and Photographs Division Reading Room
at the Library of Congress. Print formerly filed in the FSA-OWI
classified file under C34.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture
Division.
Subjects:
Miscellaneous--Personnel
United States--California.
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b27245
Call Number: LC-USF34- 002392-E
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sidewalk flying (16 months ago | reply)
Is she wearing basketball-type shoes?
trialsanderrors (16 months ago | reply)
Dorothea Lange had a bit of a reputation of being able to make herself invisible as she was taking pictures, so it's not much of a surprise that this picture doesn't quite the attention as her actual work does...
technogeo (16 months ago | reply)
The name on the partially visible footlocker (or trunk) stored at the back of the station wagon reads: "Capt. P.S.T -" This would have been Capt. Paul Schuster Taylor, whom Dorothea married in 1935.
"Paul Schuster Taylor (1895-1984), an Iowa-born economist, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. He served as a Marine captain with the Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces in France from 1917 to 1919. At the end of his military service, he resumed his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Masters degree in 1920, and a Ph.D. in 1922."
Source: "Guide to the Paul Schuster Taylor Papers, 1660-1997" (bulk 1895-1984) Online Archive of California www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7489n9 8b/
technogeo (16 months ago | reply)
The vehicle in this photo is a 1933 Ford V-8 Station Wagon (now called a "Woodie Wagon"). The sheet metal was painted Mountain Brown; the wood was finished natural with Spar Varnish. There was only one spare tire, mounted on the right-hand side in a welled fender. Note the single windshield wiper (driver's side).
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Pete Tillman (16 months ago | reply)
There's a better copy of this photo at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lange_car.jpg
--and it leads
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange
Wonderful photo. Thanks for posting these!
trialsanderrors (16 months ago | reply)
technogeo (16 months ago | reply)
Thanks, trialsanderrors!
@sidewalk flying: The basketball shoes look like "Grips" from around 1931, or possibly KEDS. The styles were similar. The interesting thing is, they're probably five years old. By 1936, the magazine ads indicate the color scheme was reversed for most basketball shoes. So either she's wearing unused old stock, or she took good care of her shoes. Definitely material for a doctoral thesis.
I didn't pay much attention to the camera. It's huge! I thought it was a shopping bag at first. And the photographer (Paul Tayor) who took this picture was probably using another gigantic camera. No wonder they needed a station wagon to get around.
DeArmasA (8 months ago | reply)
The camera is most likely a Graflex Super D, a single lens reflex which shoots 4x5 inch negatives (this is why it is so big--there is a flip mirror which allows you to see through the lens to focus , when the shutter is released the mirror flips out of the way and the picture is made)