The art: Dorothea Lange, Beginnings of Organization, Their tap-root to the land severed, they search with their fellows where new roots may be sunk. Migrant peach pickers. Yuba County. August 1938, 1938.
The news: [Maine Gov.] “Lepage orders removal of mural, sparking outcry,” by Steve Mistler in the Lewiston (Me.) Sun.
The source: Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. Here’s the museum’s entire Lange collection.
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