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Dorothea Lange
Undernourished Cotton Picker’s Child, Strike Meeting, Kern County, California
1938
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (19.1 x 19.1 cm)
Annotated ‘18732E’ in an unidentified hand in ink on the mount; Farm Security Administration stamp and typed caption affixed to the reverse of the mount.
Full-Cataloguing
The Library of Congress caption for this image is, 'Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful.'