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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1918, a fearless 22-year-old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast, determined to make her own way as an independent woman. Renaming herself Dorothea Lange, she is soon the celebrated owner of the city's most prestigious and stylish portrait studio and wife of the talented but volatile painter, Maynard Dixon. By the early 1930s, as America's economy collapses, her marriage founders, and Dorothea must find ways to support her two...
3) Mary Coin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
An intimate biography of the thirty-first First Lady of the United States, illustrated with family portraits. Here is Jacqueline Kennedy--the mischievous imaginative little girl; the "Debutante of the Year" who became a hard-working student at Vassar and later at the Sorbonne; the bride of the young bachelor senator from Massachusetts, and devoted mother of their two children.