The name inscribed on the reverse of this print is that of Richard Conrat, an assistant of Lange's as well as a photographer. With his wife, Maisie, Conrat authored the book Executive Order 9066 : the Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans (1972) which was illustrated with Lange's photographs of World War 2 Japanese internment camps.

The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection were in the photographer’s collection at the time of her death and thenceforth passed to her descendants. The images represent the entirety of Lange’s career as one of the foremost documentary photographers of the 20th century, from work made before her engagement with the Resettlement Administration, later the Farm Security Administration, in the 1930s, to the travel photography that absorbed her in her final years, as well as more personal images of her family. Each print bears a Family Collection stamp on the reverse.