White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco

Photograph

Dorothea Lange

Maker
American, 1895–1965

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco

"The Bitter Years" in California


Bread


1933
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 9 3/16 × 7 3/8 in. (23.3 × 18.7 cm)
Paper: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.1 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0388
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Bitter Years) 10/62 12) BREADLINE: In San Francisco in 1932, men \ without work joined the "White Angel" breadline. \ Credit: Dorothea Lange

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