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Latter Day Saints portrait goup. These people, man and wife, are both eighty-five years old. Converts to Mormonism from South Africa. She was the first schoolteacher in Escalante. They are dressed in their Sunday clothes

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)
Title Latter Day Saints portrait goup. These people, man and wife, are both eighty-five years old. Converts to Mormonism from South Africa. She was the first schoolteacher in Escalante. They are dressed in their Sunday clothes
Date April 1936
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (19.3 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.7 × 25.5 cm)
Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.200.XX.8.4

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