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TITLE: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California
CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 009058-C [P&P]
LC-USF346-009058-C b&w film transparency
LC-USF347-009058-C b&w film safety neg.
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516 (digital file from original neg.)
LC-USZ62-93635 ((b&w film copy neg. of an unretouched file, showing thumb)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-23845 (digital file from print, post-conservation)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-12883 (digital file from print, pre-conservation)
LC-USF34-T01-009058-C (b&w film dup. neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
MEDIUM: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 in.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Feb. or Mar.
CREATOR:
Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
NOTES:
A copy transparency (LC-USF346-009058-C) and a copy safety negative (LC-USF347-009058-C) are also in the collection.
Digital file was made from the original nitrate negative for "Migrant Mother" (LC-USF34-009058-C). The negative was retouched in the 1930s to erase the thumb holding a tent pole in lower right hand corner. The file print made before the thumb was retouched can be seen http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12883.
Title from caption card for negative. Title on print: ""Destitute pea pickers in California. A 32 year old mother of seven children."
Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3551599565
LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print.)
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 186.
Published in: Eyes of the nation / Vincent Virga ... New York : Knopf, 1997.
Published in: Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide. Washington : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 4.
Original file print is stored in PR 12, FSA file prints.
DCRM(G) example 1B3.4 - multiple titles.
TOPICS:
SUBJECTS:
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Mothers.
Poor persons.
United States--California--San Luis Obispo County--Nipomo.
FORMAT:
Group portraits.
Nitrate negatives.
Portrait photographs.
OTHER TITLE:
PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg. ) fsa 8b29516 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29516
(digital file from b&w film copy neg. of unretouched fileprint showing thumb) cph 3b41800 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b41800
(digital file from print, post-conservation) ppmsca 23845 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.23845
(digital file from print, pre-conservation) ppmsca 12883 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12883
OTHER NUMBER: J 339168
CONTROL #: fsa1998021539/PP
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