Toward Los Angeles, California (LOC)

Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

Toward Los Angeles, California

1937 Mar.

1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.

Notes:
 Photo shows two people walking (hitchhiking?) along road near a billboard that says "Next time, try the train. Relax."
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Subjects:
 Hitchhiking.
Migrants--California
United States--California.

Format: Nitrate negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA, 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.8b31801

Call Number: LC-USF34- 016317-E

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    C.M., brettbigb, bluelliot, Société Royale d'Horticulture, and 744 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. i didn't mean to go to Stoke (44 months ago | reply)

    Amazingly the first time i have seen this

  3. Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (44 months ago | reply)

    I think it's the first time for me too, as Lange is always represented by the Migrant Mother photo in the textbooks. This is incredible street photography with a difference.
    --
    Seen in your FSA/OWI Favorites set. (?)

  4. shaycam (44 months ago | reply)

    This photo tells a story in a way that few photos do. I dig.

  5. DanUneken (44 months ago | reply)

    Good lord!

  6. thejcgerm (44 months ago | reply)

    Just amazing.

  7. Danielle Whalen (44 months ago | reply)

    One of my all time favorites of hers, or any photographer if I think about it.... Glad it made the cut into this INCREDIBLE set of images!

  8. Julie70 (44 months ago | reply)

    Humor and documentary at the same time, is she (the photographer) on flickr too?

  9. © noborders (44 months ago | reply)

    splendid - comment before me is - amusing ! I wish she were... ;-))

  10. Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (44 months ago | reply)

    Julie70 I hope that was a joke. Dorothea Lange died in 1965.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange

  11. Diskfac (44 months ago | reply)

    hilarious

  12. Back_yard (44 months ago | reply)

    well they say photography is a time machine .....

  13. Attack!Kenzie,Attack! (44 months ago | reply)

    Wow that's cool.
    It's like something from that book "Of Mice And Men"
    :]

  14. Marceleis (44 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic

  15. Cristian Beckerle (44 months ago | reply)

    awesome!

  16. jul-oui (44 months ago | reply)

    nice contrast

  17. Jerry Lee Que IV [deleted] (37 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Black & White Photos, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  18. brownbeatle (32 months ago | reply)

    this is absolutely stunning.

  19. Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (32 months ago | reply)

    This classic needs to be included.
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called In The Streets, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
    --
    http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/05/26/happy-bi rthday-to-dorothea-lange/ (?)

  20. MargaretDonald (32 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful photo.

  21. This photo was invited and added to the In The Streets group.

  22. gone bunburying (32 months ago | reply)

    awesome times

  23. [ blair stretch ] (32 months ago | reply)

    Best photo I have seen in ages. Wonderful.

  24. Andreas Knoop Wundenberg Sorensen (32 months ago | reply)

    Nice!

  25. M Peterson Photography [deleted] (32 months ago | reply)

    I've seen this as a poster for several productions of Of Mice And Men, but I've never seen this photograph. Fantastic!

  26. Joshua Daniel O. (32 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 2 be a Foto-Gopher, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    great pic!

  27. This photo was invited and added to the 2 be a Foto-Gopher Vido-Gopher group.

  28. Galway Pete,off air. (32 months ago | reply)

    Great image .Great work.

  29. Tiago Silvestre - Photography (32 months ago | reply)

    Every time I look at this image I wonder.... What am I doing with a camera all the time? :)

    This is really a master work!

  30. artland (25 months ago | reply)

    Congratulations!
    This is a wonderful shot!
    You are invited to post it to:


    artland

  31. This photo was invited and added to the Just walking group.

  32. coffee stain (16 months ago | reply)

    amazing

  33. sara zollino (16 months ago | reply)

    Ah, Dorothea ...

  34. Coal and Ice (16 months ago | reply)

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBso-UG8R_E

  35. This photo was invited and added to the People in Nature, Nature in People group.

  36. This photo was invited and added to the Flickr to Tumblr group.

  37. mgw_wgw (16 months ago | reply)

    A long, long road!
    --
    Seen on blog.flickr.net ( ?² )

  38. kivajo (12 months ago | reply)

    Oh the irony

  39. Andrey Timofeev (3 months ago | reply)

    Yeah! Awesome <3

  40. This photo was invited and added to the Photofusion Film and Darkroom group.

  41. haroldseifert (2 months ago | reply)

    cowboys!

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