Fruit tramp – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Fruit tramp comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Among Dorothea Lange's many pictures of California farm laborers, this one is set apart by its inclusion of a dog alongside a group of migrant workers and children in Winters, a fruit-growing town in Yolo County. Lange made it in May 1935 while working for the Resettlement Administration, the New Deal agency that later became the Farm Security Administration. The title "Fruit tramp" was a common term for itinerant workers who followed the harvests from orchard to orchard, and the picture shows how such families lived close to their pets and possessions while they moved from job to job.
| Created / published | 1935 May. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1930-1940.Group portraits 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Lange for Resettlement Administration. No. 200 - 300. Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. |
| Subjects | Dogs--California--Winters--1930-1940. Migrant laborers--California--Winters--1930-1940. Children & adults--California--Winters--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194880 |
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