Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California
CALL NUMBER
LC-USF34- 009098 [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03054 (digital file from original file print)
LC-USZ62-58355 (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
SUMMARY
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 Migrant Mother' photographs ..." https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migr.html
Additional information on caption card: See mount 9093-C [i.e. print caption for LC-USF34-009093-C].
LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print).
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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.
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 186.
Original file print is stored in PR 12, FSA file prints.
TOPICS
Migrants--California
SUBJECTS
Migrant agricultural laborers.
Mothers.
Poor persons.
Tents.
United States--California--San Luis Obispo County--Nipomo.
FORMAT
Film negatives.
PART OF
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA