The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Rothstein's Oklahoma farm again, two years on and just across the Texas line — and this time it is Lange holding the camera. The land is still empty. The room you walked in on has not changed.
- Archive caption
- Abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl, Coldwater District near Dalhart, Texas
- Creator
- Dorothea Lange
- Date
- 1938-06
- Credit
- Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives
- Rights
- US Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information collection — LoC states the contents are in the public domain and free to use and reuse; work of the US federal government · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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This link carries its own context.
Dorothea Lange. “Abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl.” 1938-06. Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017770640/. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 764, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/QcEYXx4d87xRlzMp/764
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