- depends on which kinda train - Halloween Tree
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_Transportation_Com... - MaGioZal
Toward Los Angeles, California (LOC)
Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
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, 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 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b31801
Call Number: LC-USF34- 016317-E
Comments and faves
C.M., brettbigb, bluelliot, Société Royale d'Horticulture, and 725 other people added this photo to their favorites.
i didn't mean to go to Stoke (42 months ago | reply)
Amazingly the first time i have seen this
Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (42 months ago | reply)
I think it's the first time for me too, as Lange is always represented by the Migrant Mother photo in the textbooks. This is incredible street photography with a difference.
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Seen in your FSA/OWI Favorites set. (?)
shaycam (42 months ago | reply)
This photo tells a story in a way that few photos do. I dig.
DanUneken (42 months ago | reply)
Good lord!
thejcgerm (42 months ago | reply)
Just amazing.
Danielle Whalen (42 months ago | reply)
One of my all time favorites of hers, or any photographer if I think about it.... Glad it made the cut into this INCREDIBLE set of images!
Julie70 (42 months ago | reply)
Humor and documentary at the same time, is she (the photographer) on flickr too?
© noborders (42 months ago | reply)
splendid - comment before me is - amusing ! I wish she were... ;-))
Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (42 months ago | reply)
Julie70 I hope that was a joke. Dorothea Lange died in 1965.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange
Diskfac (42 months ago | reply)
hilarious
Back_yard (42 months ago | reply)
well they say photography is a time machine .....
Attack!Kenzie,Attack! (42 months ago | reply)
Wow that's cool.
It's like something from that book "Of Mice And Men"
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Marceleis (42 months ago | reply)
Fantastic
Cristian Beckerle (42 months ago | reply)
awesome!
jul-oui (42 months ago | reply)
nice contrast
Jerry Lee Que IV [deleted] (35 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Black & White Photos, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
brownbeatle (30 months ago | reply)
this is absolutely stunning.
Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (30 months ago | reply)
This classic needs to be included.
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called In The Streets, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/05/26/happy-bi rthday-to-dorothea-lange/ (?)
MargaretsFamily (30 months ago | reply)
Wonderful photo.
This photo was invited and added to the In The Streets group.
gone bunburying (30 months ago | reply)
awesome times
[ blair stretch ] (30 months ago | reply)
Best photo I have seen in ages. Wonderful.
Andreas Knoop Wundenberg Sorensen (30 months ago | reply)
Nice!
M Peterson Photography [deleted] (30 months ago | reply)
I've seen this as a poster for several productions of Of Mice And Men, but I've never seen this photograph. Fantastic!
Joshua Daniel O. (30 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 2 be a Foto-Gopher, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
great pic!
This photo was invited and added to the 2 be a Foto-Gopher Vido-Gopher group.
Galway Pete (30 months ago | reply)
Great image .Great work.
Tiago Silvestre - Photography (30 months ago | reply)
Every time I look at this image I wonder.... What am I doing with a camera all the time? :)
This is really a master work!
artland (23 months ago | reply)
Congratulations!
This is a wonderful shot!
You are invited to post it to:
artland
This photo was invited and added to the Just walking group.
coffee stain (14 months ago | reply)
amazing
sara zollino (14 months ago | reply)
Ah, Dorothea ...
Coal and Ice (14 months ago | reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBso-UG8R_E
This photo was invited and added to the People in Nature, Nature in People group.
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mgw_wgw (14 months ago | reply)
A long, long road!
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Seen on blog.flickr.net ( ?² )
kivajo (10 months ago | reply)
Oh the irony
Andrey Timofeev (9 days ago | reply)
Yeah! Awesome <3
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