Title

Car on siding across tracks from pea packing plant, Calipatria, Imperial Valley, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Car on siding across tracks from pea packing plant. Twenty-five year old itinerant, originally from Oregon. "On the road eight years, all over the country, every state in the union, back and forth, pick up a job here and there, travelling all the time." Calipatria, Imperial Valley.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A52_167

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,4Mb (1,5Mb) / 13,9in x 14,4in / 4157 x 4325 (300dpi)

Keywords

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