Abandoned
Photograph

Dorothea Lange

Maker
American, 1895–1965

Abandoned

Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas


"The Bitter Years" in California


1938
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 6 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (16.2 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0385
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Bitter Years) 10/62 / 9) ABANDONED: Mechanized farming drove many \ family farmers off the land to join the trek West. \ This house of a tenant farmer was abandoned in the \ Texas panhandle. \ Credit: Dorothea Lange from F.S.A.

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