Terms and conditions of use
Hitchhikers, near Vicksburg, Mississippi
(1936); printed (c. 1975)
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 26.8 × 34.3 cm (image) 28.0 × 35.4 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Mississippi, United States
- Accession Number
- PH121-1975
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975
Public domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, a team of photographers was assembled by the Farm Security Administration to record living conditions in rural America. The photographers were directed to, “record on film as much of America as [they] could in terms of people and land”.