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Dorothea Lange’s Unseen Photos of Doomed Town That’s Now Underwater Digitized by UC

Dorothea Lange’s Unseen Photos of Doomed Town That’s Now Underwater Digitized by UC

A split image: on the left, a girl leans on a wooden fence, gazing thoughtfully; on the right, two people walk near a burning house engulfed in flames, with smoke billowing into the sky.

An incredible photo archive showing the sad decline of a long-forgotten town shot by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones has been digitized and uploaded by the University of California (UC).

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Dorothea Lange’s Unseen Photos of Doomed Town That’s Now Underwater Digitized by UC