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‘Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute.’ Dorothea Lange. March 1936.
Photo: The Library of Congress
https://mymodernmet.com/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother/

‘Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute.’ Dorothea Lange. March 1936. Photo: The Library of Congress https://mymodernmet.com/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother/

#FlorenceThompson #Nipomo #California March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography
Thompson later contested much of Lange’s account
Original #DorotheaLange caption 👉ALT

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#FlorenceThompson with two of her children at the temporary camp in Nipomo, California. March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #DorotheaLange #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography

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#FlorenceThompson nursing one of her children at the temporary camp in in Nipomo, California. March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #DorotheaLange #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography

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Mother of seven, #FlorenceThompson, seated, with three of her daughters and holding her baby.
#blackandwhitephotography #DorotheaLange #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography

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In #MARCH 1936
32-year-old migrant worker Florence Thompson (1903-1983) with children at a temporary camp in in Nipomo, California photographed by #ResettlementAdministration photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) in March 1936
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#DorotheaLange #FlorenceThompson #TheNewDeal

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#DorotheaLange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ portrait of #FlorenceThompson

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‘Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute.’ Dorothea Lange. March 1936.
Photo: The Library of Congress
https://mymodernmet.com/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother/

‘Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute.’ Dorothea Lange. March 1936. Photo: The Library of Congress https://mymodernmet.com/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother/

#FlorenceThompson #Nipomo #California March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography
Thompson later contested much of Lange’s account
Original #DorotheaLange caption 👉ALT

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#FlorenceThompson with two of her children at the temporary camp in Nipomo, California. March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #DorotheaLange #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography

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#FlorenceThompson nursing one of her children at the temporary camp in in Nipomo, California. March 1936.
#ResettlementAdministration #DorotheaLange #GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography

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Mother of seven, #FlorenceThompson, seated, with three of her daughters and holding her baby.
#blackandwhitephotography #DorotheaLange #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #California #blackandwhitephotography

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In #MARCH 1936
32-year-old migrant worker Florence Thompson (1903-1983) with children at a temporary camp in in Nipomo, California photographed by #ResettlementAdministration photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) in March 1936
🧵👇
#DorotheaLange #FlorenceThompson #TheNewDeal

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