Dorothea Lange would have been 105 today. We’re delighted to be able to celebrate this great and important photographer with photographs from the Commons. Though she died only 45 years ago, the work Lange did for the U.S. Government is in the public domain now, and you’ll find some of it in the Commons on Flickr. Here’s a selection from three different Commons institutions that hold some of her government work:

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (National Media Museum, UK)

Two Children of the Mochida Family, with Their Parents, Awaiting Evacuation Bus (U.S. National Archives)

Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina … They are Called the Cedargrove Team (Library of Congress)

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