Dorothea LANGE "We come from the State nobody likes"
Dorothea LANGE
Ten children, "We come from the State nobody likes."
From Chickasaw, Oklahoma. California, March, 1937
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
7 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (image size)
Mounted to thin card.Typed paper caption slip attached to lower margin, mount recto: “Ten children. 'We come from the state Nobody likes.' From Chickasaw Oklahoma. California, March, 1937”
Inscribed on mount verso by Lange, “8C.”
Inscribed upper mount verso in pencil: “Dorothea Lange from
Resettlement Administration” and “RA 16300-E”This print was made and submitted by Dorothea Lange with other
photographs keyed to a layout and story for inclusion in Life
Magazine. Life published only one of the images in the Spring, 1937
issue.Published (this print): Fortune, April 1939, p. 97, article titled, “Along
the Road”Library of Congress catalog number for this image: LC-USF34-016300-E
Titled there: “Children of migrant agricultural workers in California.”