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"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange
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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."
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Credit line"Migrant Mother," by Dorothea Lange. 1936. Lange, Dorothea. National Museum of American History. CC0.
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