105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm Security Administration

Made:
1935-1945 in United States

105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm Security Administration, c. 1935-1945, included in the exhibition `Let us Now Praise Famous Women', NMPFT, 1986

Silver gelatin print entitled 'Dustbowl Farm, Coldwater District', by Dorothea Lange, 1938. One of 105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm security Administration, c. 1935-1945, included in the exhibition `Let us Now Praise Famous Women', NMPFT, 1986.

Dustbowl Farm, Coldwater District

1938
Gealtin silver print entitled 'Roswell, New Mexico' by Dorothea Lange, 1937. One of 105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm Security Administration, c. 1935-1945, included in the exhibition `Let us Now Praise Famous Women', NMPFT, 1986

Roswell, New Mexico

1937
'Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California' by Dorothea Lange, 1937. This was taken for The Farm Security Administration, c. 1935-1945. The woman, 32, was living in a tent with her children in freezing conditions in a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo Valley, California. She had just sold the tyres from her car to buy food.

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

1936
Silver gelatin print entitled 'Corner of the Dazey Kitchen', by Dorothea Lange, 1939. One of 105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm Security Administration, c. 1935-1945, included in the exhibition `Let us Now Praise Famous Women', NMPFT, 1986.

Corner of the Dazey Kitchen

1939
Gelatin silver print entitled 'Desert Highway' by Dorothea Lange, 1937. One of 105 monochrome prints by women photographers of The Farm Security Administration, c. 1935-1945, included in the exhibition `Let us Now Praise Famous Women', NMPFT, 1986

Desert Highway

1938

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1991-5077
type:
photograph
credit:
The National Media Museum, Bradford

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