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Reading Through History: History Brief: Dorothea Lange Instructional Video

Reading Through History: History Brief: Dorothea Lange Instructional Video

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Reading Through History: History Brief: Dorothea Lange

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This video provides a brief biography of Dorothea Lange and her contributions to history and the world of photography. Lange took some of the most memorable images of both the Great Depression in the 1930s and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. [3:28]

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