1 Copies of the reports are in Lots 897 and 898, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
2 Much of the information in this text is from Karin Becker Ohrn, Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 38-49; Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978), 126-29; and Dorothea Lange interview by Richard Doud, 22 May 1964, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
3 Lange to Stryker, 16 February 1937, Stryker Collection.
4 Paul S. Taylor and Dorothea Lange, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939; rev. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975), 145, 148.
5 Federal Writers' Project, California: A Guide to the Golden State (New York: Hastings House, 1939), 639-40.
6 Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, 163-70.
7 Lange to Stryker, 12 March 1937, Stryker Collection.
8 Lange to Stryker, 12 March 1937, Stryker Collection.
9 Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, 166-69. Clippings from serials may be found in the Supplementary Reference files and agency scrapbooks, FSA-OWI Written Records. Not all of the clippings offer full bibliographic citations. Lange's 1937 Imperial Valley pictures were used in the following newspapers, journals, and magazines: St. Louis Post Dispatch Sunday Magazine, 17 April 1938, 4; Current History, April 1939, 33; Social Work, April 1939; St. Louis Post Dispatch Sunday Magazine, 28 January 1940; Country Gentleman, February 1940, 9; and Democratic Digest, June-July 1940, 46.
10 Stryker to Lange, 2 December 1936, Stryker Collection.
11 Lange to Stryker, 16 February 1937, Stryker Collection.
12 Stryker to Lange, 9 March 1937, Stryker Collection.
13 Lange to Stryker, 19 March 1937, Stryker Collection.
14 Lange to Stryker, 23 March 1937, Stryker Collection.
15 Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, 164-65.
16 "The U.S. Dust Bowl," Life, 21 June 1937, 60-65.
17 Dorothea Lange interview by Richard Doud, 22 May 1964, Archives of American Art.
18 Lange interview by Doud, 22 May 1964, Archives of American Art.