National Museum of American History
"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange
Lange, Dorothea · 1936
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."
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