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How OMCA is making Dorothea Lange’s archive available for all

Posted by Cheyenne Matthe... on30Jul

Want to know how OMCA digitizes Dorothea Lange’s work? Photographic Collection Cataloger Ellis Martin takes us behind the scenes

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Skeleton doll with words reading: 26th Virtual El Día de los Muertos Community Celebration, October 25, 2020
November 18, 2020

The Power of Partnership

OMCA’s El Día de los Muertos Volunteer Committee Steps Up to Help us Share the Tradition Virtually
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Black and white image of a grown man's hands and a small child's hands
August 7, 2020

Explore Five Rare Dorothea Lange Photos From Her Studio Portrait Series

Discover Lange’s lesser-known photographs and more on OMCA’s new Dorothea Lange Digital Archive, launching August 10.
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Paul S. Taylor, Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Plains, circa 1935. © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
July 31, 2020

How OMCA is making Dorothea Lange’s archive available for all

Want to know how OMCA digitizes Dorothea Lange’s work? Photographic Collection Cataloger Ellis Martin takes us behind the scenes.
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