Thomas H. Kuchel served as a senator from California from 1953 to 1969. During his terms he supported a number of significant progressive causes, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1965, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A moderate Republican, he found himself increasingly at odds with the growing conservative movement in his party which he described as "A fanatical neo-fascist political cult of right-wingers in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear that is recklessly determined to control our party or destroy it!"
The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two 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.