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English: Photo by Dorothea Lange of a migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had gone back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. 1936
Date Taken in February 1936
Source Library of Congress
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Dorothea Lange  (1895–1965)  wikidata:Q230673 q:en:Dorothea Lange
 
Dorothea Lange
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Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; Dorothea Lange Taylor; Dorothea Nutzhorn; Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange
Description American-German journalist, photojournalist, photographer, documentarian and artist
Date of birth/death 26 May 1895 Edit this at Wikidata 11 October 1965 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hoboken Edit this at Wikidata San Francisco Edit this at Wikidata
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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