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ART INSTITUTE
MCA CHICAGO
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY
SMART MUSEUM OF ART

Dorothea Lange, Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute, from On The Road: Dave Anderson – Rough Beauty; Farm Security Administration – Dorothea Lange, September 5-November 1, 2008, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.