Florence Thompson,Migrant Mother,Dorothea Lange,Farm Security Administration

Title: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California
Other Title: Migrant mother.
Creator(s): Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1936 Feb. or Mar.
Summary: Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as 'Migrant Mother.' For background information, see 'Dorothea Lange's M`igrant Mother' photographs ...' http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
Notes:
A copy transparency (LC-USF346-009058-C) and a copy safety negative (LC-USF347-009058-C) are also in the collection.
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.
Title from caption card for negative. Title on print: ''Destitute pea pickers in California. A 32 year old mother of seven children.'
Additional information about this photograph might be available through the Flickr Commons project at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3551599565
LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print).
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.
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 / Vincent Virga ... New York : Knopf, 1997.
Published in: Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide. Washington : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 4.
DCRM(G) example 1B3.4 - multiple titles.
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
Group portraits.
Nitrate negatives.
Portrait photographs.
Bookmark /fsa1998021539/PP/
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