Migrant Mother

DESCRIPTION:

Image: Lange's well-known 1936 photograph, "Migrant Mother," captured 32-year-old Florence Thompson sitting under the shelter of a makeshift tent in a migrant labor camp in California. She has a baby in her lap and two older children leaning on her shoulder, but is facing away from the camera.

CONTRIBUTOR: Thomas Dublin

DATE ADDED: 2010-08-07 21:41:20

COLLECTION: Historical Essay Part II

ITEM TYPE: Still Image

CITATION: Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother," in Miner's Son, Miners' Photographer:, Item #457, https://chnm.gmu.edu/harvan/items/show/457 (accessed February 1, 2022).

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Dorothea Lange
Source
Library of Congress
Subject
Dorothea Lange-migrant
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