Where was "White Angel Breadline, San Francisco" taken?
The famous Dorothea Lange Photo of a man caught in despair Depression is one of my favorites. I was wondering if anyone knew where San Francisco was taken? I go and make some photos mdoern days, I compare the old and new photos of the same place.
From Dorothea Lange site: http://www.artnet.com/artwork/423940666/911/white-angel-breadline-san-francisco.html "In 1933, Lange has made one of his most famous photographs," White Angel Breadline ". The name of a widow from San Francisco, Lois Jordan, who took the name "White Angel" when she established a soup kitchen to feed the poor and hungry. "A Search for Lois Jordan," White Angel "who ran the soup kitchen is up this site .... http://books.google.com/books?id=zT6AABS0McAC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq = 22white Angel +%% 22% 2Blois + Jordan +% 2Bsoup Kitchen & source = web & ots = 7DriveyLTo & sig = NYC-not-JOsdbr73-peOIemaHk_U & hl = en On page 68 it says: "The effects of the Great Depression in San Francisco can be seen in this photograph JK Piggott Jungle White Angel. "jungle". LOCATED NEAR THE EMBARCADERO FILBERT Street, was a soup kitchen. The self-proclaimed "White Angel" was Lois Jordan, a wealthy woman who was, some 2,000 men per day on principles of faith and without unnecessary red tape. For supplies, the mother of Jordan depends entirely on unsolicited donations of food and money "Nearest Soooo .... I could go to the actual location is near the Embarcadero Filbert St. Hope this helps! EDIT: Found more info this site .. http://wjdglover.blogspot.com/2007/04/thursday-26th-april-2007.html (scroll down to "The White Angel San Francisco ...)" Here at the foot of Telegraph Hill, from June 1931 to September 1933, a woman has completed its own plan to help you. Her name was Lois Jordan, the soup kitchen, she created in Abe's fucceeded junk-filled lot, bounded by the Embarcadero and Battery, between Filbert and Greenwich became known as the White Angel Jungle. "I also found this very short video clip of White Angel Jungle .... http://www.gettyimages.com/search / detail.aspx? = 2017-405 & id = esource feed_google_video