Migrant Mother

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February 1936. Nipomo, Calif. "Destitute pea pickers living in tent in migrant camp. Mother of seven children. Age 32."

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Supplemental:

Photograph by Dorothea Lange. The anonymous subject of this famous Depression-era portrait known as "Migrant Mother," after coming forward in the late 1970s, was revealed to be Florence Owens Thompson; she died in 1983.

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1930s

Women

California

Dorothea Lange

FSA/OWI

Great Depression

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