Object Details
- Lange, Dorothea
- Description
- During the Great Depression, government photographer Dorothea Lange took this picture at a migrant farmworkers' camp near Nipomo, California. Lange's brief caption recorded her impressions of the family's plight: "Destitute pea pickers ... a 32-year-old mother of seven children."
- First published in a San Francisco newspaper, this poignant image became one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, emblematic of the hardships suffered by poor migrant families. The "migrant mother," anonymous for many years, was later identified as Oklahoma native Florence Thompson.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1936
- ID Number
- 1983.0069.07
- accession number
- 1983.0069
- catalog number
- 83.69.7
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Place Made
- United States: California
- Related Publication
- Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
- National Museum of American History. Treasures of American History exhibition website
- Related Web Publication
- https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/treasures-american-history
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- National Treasures exhibit
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- Great Depression
- Record ID
- nmah_1313354
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-f81e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
