Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama
Dorothea Lange · 1938
Why it's great
An elderly woman in Alabama who was born into slavery stands in front of her house in 1938. Dorothea Lange's photograph, taken during the Great Depression, honors a person who remembered a very different time in American history.
🏛️ Part of history
The Great Depression (1929–1939) — An elderly woman in Alabama who was born into slavery stands in front of her house in 1938.
Where to see it
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Dorothea Lange was an American photographer born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895. She moved to San Francisco, and during the Great Depression worked for the government photographing the lives of poor farm families, creating the famous Migrant Mother. She died in San Francisco in 1965.
