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Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
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Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965); Gelatin Silver This iconic portrait of a mother and her three children was taken in the USA in 1936. The family lived in a tent in a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo Valley, California. Dorothea Lange took this photograph whilst working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), who created an extensive photographic record of the Depression in America between 1935 and 1943.

Date
1936
Photographer / author
National Media Museum from UK
Collection
FSA/OWI
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
1,616 × 2,000 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).

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"Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California" (1936). National Media Museum from UK, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Migrant_Mother,_Nipomo,_California_(3588771589).jpg

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