LangeNextTimeTryTheTrain
"Three families camped on the plains along U.S. 99 in California. They are camped behind a billboard which serves as a partial windbreak. All are in need of work." 1938. Billboard reads "Next Time Try The Train. Southern Pacific. Travel While You Sleep".
- Date
- 1938-11
- Photographer / author
- Photo by Dorothea Lange for Farm Security Administration/WPA
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 8,460 × 6,000 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"LangeNextTimeTryTheTrain" (1938-11). Photo by Dorothea Lange for Farm Security Administration/WPA. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LangeNextTimeTryTheTrain.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 121229.
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