Breastfeeding mother. D. Lange-J. Steinbeck. Photo book, United States 1938
Their blood is strong. John Steinbeck. Dorothea Lange. Simon Lubin Society California
Dimensions: 225 x 152 mm
Report denouncing the harsh conditions of the more than 250,000 "homeless" immigrant farmers in California during the "Great Depression". Written by John Steinbeck (Salinas, California, 1902 - New York, 1962) in 1936, initially published in seven issues in the San Francisco News in October 1936 and collected in this pamphlet published in April 1938 by the Simon Lubin Society of California. Third printing June 1938.
Considered the precursor of "The Grapes of Wrath" for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
Photographs by Dorothea Lange (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1895 - San Francisco, 1965), a photographer committed to denouncing poverty, exploitation and social exclusion. In the 1930s she worked for the Farm Security Administration, documenting the precarious situation of farmers displaced by the Great Depression.
Report denouncing the harsh conditions of the more than 250,000 "homeless" immigrant farmers in California during the "Great Depression". Written by John Steinbeck (Salinas, California, 1902 - New York, 1962) in 1936, initially published in seven issues in the San Francisco News in October 1936 and collected in this pamphlet published in April 1938 by the Simon Lubin Society of California. Third printing June 1938.
Considered the precursor of "The Grapes of Wrath" for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
Photographs by Dorothea Lange (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1895 - San Francisco, 1965), a photographer committed to denouncing poverty, exploitation and social exclusion. In the 1930s she worked for the Farm Security Administration, documenting the precarious situation of farmers displaced by the Great Depression.