The Graduate
date: label: date made
content: 1967
name: label: maker
content: Powers, Mark James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: "The Graduate / Costa Mesa, California - 1967 / Powers did not know he was photographing a scene that would become so symbolic. This is Harbor Blvd. outside of Orange Coast College, where Powers was a student. He thinks of this as representative of California and the Beat Generation, describing how marijuana became more popular against the stress of the Vietnam War and a lingering unstable reality from previous political assassinations. In Powers' description, as young people might be drafted, the philosophies and behavior of this young group was also a reaction to the larger struggle for political power and the stress of an uncertain future."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Costa Mesa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0222.44
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0222.44
label: accession number
content: 2013.0222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (mount material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 7/8 in x 20 in; 37.7825 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 in x 15 in; 25.4 cm x 38.1 cm