Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California.
This 1936 Dorthea Lange image of Florence Thompson with her children is part of the “Migrant Mother” series. In this image, Thompson’s family in shown in their home: a tent. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Feb. or March
PHOTOGRAPHER: Lange, Dorothea, photographer
NOTES:
Title from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
SUBJECTS:
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Mothers.
Poor persons.
Tents.
Migrants--California
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original file print) ppmsca 03054 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03054 (digital file from b&w film copy neg. of file print) cph 3b06165 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b06165