Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.
This iconic 1936 Dorthea Lange image depicts Florence Thompson, a widow with three of her seven children. She is in a pea pickers camp trying to provide an income for her children.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Feb. or March
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lange, Dorothea, photographer
NOTES:
Title from caption card.
Digital file was made from the original nitrate negative for "Migrant Mother" (LC-USF34-009058-C). The negative was retouched in the 1930s to erase the thumb holding a tent pole in lower right hand corner. The file print made before the thumb was retouched can be seen http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12883 Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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SUBJECTS:
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Mothers.
Poor persons.
Migrants--California
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) fsa 8b29516 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29516 (digital file from print) ppmsca 12883 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12883