Title California on the breadlines : Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the making of a New Deal narrative / Jan Goggans.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue : uncommon ground -- From Belleau Wood to Berkeley -- The magnet of the West -- Labor on the land -- Far West factories -- A new social order -- Women on the breadlines -- An American exodus -- Conclusion : can the subaltern speak?
Summary	California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private--they both divorced spouses to be together--collaborative, and richly productive. Lange and Taylor poured their considerable energies into the decade-long project of documenting the plight of California's dispossessed, which in 1939 culminated in the publication of their landmark book, American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Jan Goggans blends biography, literature, and history to re.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Lange, Dorothea.
	Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984.
	Lange, Dorothea. (OCoLC)fst00041940
	Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984. (OCoLC)fst01861658
	Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
	Social scientists -- United States -- Biography.
	Rural poor -- United States -- History.
	Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
	1895-1984.
	1929.
	Biography.
	Depressions.
	History.
	Rural poor.
	Social scientists.
	Social scientists -- United States.
	Taylor, Paul Schuster.
	United States.
	Women photographers.
	Women photographers -- United States.
	Fine Arts.
	HISTORY -- United States -- General.
	Depressions. (OCoLC)fst00890969
	Rural poor. (OCoLC)fst01101743
	Social scientists. (OCoLC)fst01123063
	Women photographers. (OCoLC)fst01178288
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1929
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Goggans, Jan. California on the breadlines. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520266216 (DLC) 2009038130 (OCoLC)445479363
Standard No.	9786612697715
ISBN	9780520945890 (electronic bk.)
	0520945891 (electronic bk.)

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