No. 299 · Candid & Wit

Halloween Party, Shafter, California, 1938

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Photographed by Dorothea Lange · 1938 · Shafter, California

Halloween Party, Shafter, California, 1938 (Dorothea Lange): Children in paper masks and pointed party hats crowd together under an open wooden roof

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Additions

Engraved plate

Halloween Party, Shafter, California, 1938

Museum anti-reflective acrylic+$49In place of the standard UV acrylic.Museum lighting+$129A slim lamp fitted to the top rail of the frame.Personal line on the plate+$29Added under the story line. The story plate is always engraved.

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The story

Children in paper masks and pointed party hats crowd together under an open wooden roof. Some wear a domino mask or pale paper masks and tall pointed paper hats, others are bare-faced in caps, overalls and checked coats, and several hold cups, with grown-ups in hats behind them and a man's arm at the right edge. Dorothea Lange made the photograph at a Halloween party at the Shafter migrant camp in Shafter, California (Kern County); the caption card is dated November 1938 and reads "Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California," and the negative came to the Library of Congress in 1944 with the FSA/OWI collection.

About the artist

This piece is held by Library of Congress.

Details

Catalog: No. 299
Date: 1938
Place: Shafter, California
Archive: Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information

Source: Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information, 2017770943. No known restrictions on publication.

Craft

Moulding: Black moulding, chosen to suit this picture. More frames in the frame picker.
Paper: 100% cotton rag archival paper
Inks: Pigment inks
Glazing: UV acrylic. Museum anti-reflective acrylic is $49 more
Plate: Engraved brass, with the story and an optional personal line
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Size guide

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