"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange
date: label: date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: Lange, Dorothea
notes: label: Description
content: During the Great Depression, government photographer Dorothea Lange took this picture at a migrant farmworkers' camp near Nipomo, California. Lange's brief caption recorded her impressions of the family's plight: "Destitute pea pickers ... a 32-year-old mother of seven children."
label: Description
content: First published in a San Francisco newspaper, this poignant image became one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, emblematic of the hardships suffered by poor migrant families. The "migrant mother," anonymous for many years, was later identified as Oklahoma native Florence Thompson.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California
topic: label: related event
content: Great Depression
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0069.07
label: accession number
content: 1983.0069
label: catalog number
content: 83.69.7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)