Cotton Pickers and Owners (Free Speech)

Bakersfield, 1938

Dorothea Lange

Film negative

Gift of Paul S. Taylor

4 in x 5 in

A67.137.38026.2

© The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California.

Alternate Title and/or Date
During her lifetime Lange’s photographs appeared in a variety of exhibitions and publications, sometimes years after they were taken. This often resulted in multiple titles for the same image.
A Back
Additional Information
Inscription: Cotton pickers & owners Calif 1938 "A back" (Also Cotton Contest) On Cotton Commercial production of cotton in Calif began in 1909. In 1936, Calif. produced 3.3% of U.S. Cotton crop. Bakersfield, ...Read More
Inscription: Cotton pickers & owners Calif 1938 "A back" (Also Cotton Contest) On Cotton Commercial production of cotton in Calif began in 1909. In 1936, Calif. produced 3.3% of U.S. Cotton crop. Bakersfield, Calif - Fall '37 Cotton is a crop that always brings evil with it -- the rawest, crudest exploitation, brutalizing anyone & everyone involved in it.