Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936
Dorothea Lange; Depicted: Florence Owens Thompsonexpand_more
Gelatin silver printexpand_more
The Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Fundexpand_more 92.136
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Dorothea Lange was a prolific member of the pioneering team of photographers hired by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. She concentrated largely on the unemployed and displaced farmworkers of the American West and Southwest, revealing their plight and circumstances with great compassion, humanity, and considerable insight. This arresting image has appeared in countless textbooks and histories of that difficult period in American history.
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- Title
- Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
- Artist Life
- 1895-1965
- Role
- Photographer
- Accession Number
- 92.136
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