Dorothea Lange's "Cotton Picker, San Joaquin Valley, California, November" is a gelatin silver print documenting agricultural labor during the Great Depression era. The photograph exemplifies Lange's documentary style and humanistic approach, capturing the lived experience of farm workers through careful compositional framing and tonal control. This work is representative of Lange's larger body of Depression era photography that gave visual testimony to economic hardship and working class struggle in rural America.