Florence Thompson,Migrant Mother,Dorothea Lange,Farm Security Admin,FSA

Title: Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute
Creator(s): Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1936 Feb. or Mar.
Summary: Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the 'Migrant Mother' series. For background information, see 'Dorothea Lange's M`igrant Mother' photographs ...' http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print).
LOT 2302 (Location of corresponding print).
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
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 186.
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Original file print is stored in PR 12, FSA file prints.
Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Mothers.
Poor persons.
United States--California--San Luis Obispo County--Nipomo.
Migrants--California
Nitrate negatives.
Bookmark /fsa1998021552/PP/
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