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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Migrant Mother: 1936
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:53:27 -0700


Migrant Mother: 1936
http://www.shorpy.com/migrant-mother

"Destitute pea pickers living in tent in migrant camp. Mother of seven
children. Age thirty-two." Nipomo, California. February 1936. Photograph by
Dorothea Lange. View full size. The anonymous subject of this famous
Depression-era portrait known as "Migrant Mother" came forward in the late
1970s and was revealed to be Florence Owens Thompson (interview). She died
in 1983.
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/movies/thompson_water_06.ht
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paul tradingpost@lobo.net






  • [Livingontheland] Migrant Mother: 1936, Tradingpost, 01/29/2009

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