Photo of Migrant Mother, alternative version (LOC fsa.8b29523)

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Title

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute

Description

Photograph shows Florence [Owens] Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series.

For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother' photographs ..." https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

Date

1936 Feb. or Mar.

Medium

1 negative : nitrate

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches or smaller.

Photographer



Description	American journalist, photographer, artist and photojournalist
Date of birth/death	25 May 1895	11 October 1965
Location of birth/death	Hoboken, United States of America	San Francisco, United States of America
Work location	United States of America
Authority control	: Q230673 VIAF: 77594538 ISNI: 0000 0003 6853 8723 ULAN: 500007674 LCCN: n79100159 NLA: 35290688 WorldCat

^(w), photographer.

Institution

Library of Congress

	Native name	Library of Congress
	Location	Washington, D.C.
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 19″ N, 77° 00′ 17″ W
	Established	1800
	Website	www.loc.gov
	Authority control	: Q131454 VIAF: 151962300 ISNI: 0000 0001 2186 288X ULAN: 500312782 LCCN: n78089035 NLA: 35304669 WorldCat

Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Accession number

CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 009093-C [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USF34-T01-009093-C (b&w film dup. neg.); ~~LC-USZ62-131366 (b&w film copy neg. from print)~~
DIGITAL ID: (b&w copy scan) fsa 8b29523 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29523; ~~(b&w film copy neg. from print) cph 3c31366 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c31366~~
OTHER NUMBER: J 355
CONTROL #: fsa1998021552/PP

Notes

Title and other information from caption card.; LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print.); LOT 2302 (Location of corresponding print.); Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.; More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi; Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 186.; Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.; Original file print is stored in PR 12, FSA file prints.
TOPICS: Migrants--California
SUBJECTS: Migrant agricultural laborers.; Mothers.; Poor persons.; United States--California--San Luis Obispo County--Nipomo.
FORMAT: Nitrate negatives.
PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8b29523.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.

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This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows

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