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English: 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, http://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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Call Number: LC-USF34- 016317-E
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under the digital ID fsa.8b31801.
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Dorothea Lange  (1895–1965)  wikidata:Q230673 q:en:Dorothea Lange
 
Dorothea Lange
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Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; Dorothea Lange Taylor; Dorothea Nutzhorn; Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange
Description American-German journalist, photojournalist, photographer, documentarian and artist
Date of birth/death 26 May 1895 Edit this at Wikidata 11 October 1965 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hoboken Edit this at Wikidata San Francisco Edit this at Wikidata
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United States of America; San Francisco Edit this at Wikidata
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current14:07, 17 February 2024Thumbnail for version as of 14:07, 17 February 20244,084 × 4,208 (6.8 MB)Yann (talk | contribs)more restoration
20:52, 1 February 2024Thumbnail for version as of 20:52, 1 February 20244,084 × 4,208 (6.81 MB)Yann (talk | contribs)c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
07:16, 30 November 2016Thumbnail for version as of 07:16, 30 November 2016956 × 1,001 (238 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)The Library of Congress, Set 72157618541455384, ID 3549663710, Original title Toward Los Angeles, California (LOC)

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