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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

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Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

Additional information on caption card: See mount 9093-C [i.e. print caption for LC-USF34-009093-C].

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Original negative missing, 2011.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://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.

Temp. note: usf34batch1

Original file print is stored in PR 12, FSA file prints.

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migrant agricultural laborers mothers poor persons tents california san luis obispo county nipomo migrants film negatives lot 344 american women a gateway to library of congress resources for the study of women history and culture in the united states dorothea lange photo 1930 s farm security administration history great depression library of congress
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01/01/1936
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california
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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