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Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. Cottage Gardens road sign. This sign advertises a depression community. There are one hundred homes. All but fifteen of the families were living on SSRA work and buying their homes on this budget and buying the land and erecting something to live in.

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)
Title Outskirts of San Bernardino, California. Cottage Gardens road sign. This sign advertises a depression community. There are one hundred homes. All but fifteen of the families were living on SSRA work and buying their homes on this budget and buying the land and erecting something to live in.
Date February 1935
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 9 5/8 × 7 3/16 in. (24.4 × 18.2 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 7 1/2 in. (25.4 × 19 cm)
Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.200.XX.8.8

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