Slave Market
San Francisco, CA, 1934
Dorothea Lange
Gelatin silver print
Gift of Paul S. Taylor
A67.137.34008.6
© 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.
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.
Howard Street, San Francisco
Additional Information
"Slave Market" was a sardonic nickname for a stretch of Howard Street where unemployed men would wait hopefully for low-paid day work.
