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Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, where the Solomon family do their shopping. In the street and displayed on newspaper. All socks for sale at ten cents the pair

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Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, where the Solomon family do their shopping. In the street and displayed on newspaper. All socks for sale at ten cents the pair

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Additional information on caption card: See RA 9191-E [i.e. LC-USF34-009191-E) for project background.
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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
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Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Dorothea Lange contracted polio as a young girl. She learned professional photography skills while working in New York in her early 20s, and then landed in San Francisco where she ran a portrait business catering to the city's wealthy elite. Her second husband, Paul Taylor, helped her to get out into the fields with the destitute pickers, who she'd treat like portrait subjects with empathy and identification with her subjects. When the Depression hit, she captured crowded breadlines. In the late 1930s Dorothea Lange had been hired by the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration - to photograph Dust Bowl refugees escaped into California from the Midwest and her images went far beyond bureaucratic reportage. A skilled portraitist, Lange might not have been able to change government policies, but her images for the FSA were picked up by newspapers across the country. John Steinbeck used them for inspiration in his 1939 Dust Bowl tale "The Grapes of Wrath."

Tim traveling through NYC streets 1935-1936, in the midst of the Great Depression.

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01/01/1936
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Location

new york
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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