1792: Anne Hall born (painter)
1826: Mary Ann Andrews Denison born
1869: Sara Tew Mayo born (physician, surgeon)
1877: Isadora Duncan born
1881: Julia Stimson born (nurse, Army nurse, oficer)
1895: Dorothea Lange born (photographer, photojournalist)
1903: Susette LeFlesche Tibbles (Susette La Flesche) died (1854-1903) (Native American lecturer and writer, also known as Bright Eyes)
1907: Elizabeth Keckley died (dressmaker, wrote about Mary Todd Lincoln)
1909: Helen Eugenie Moore Anderson born (politician, public official)
1951: Sally Ride born (astronaut - first American woman in space)
Quote for Today
I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. [About her famous photograph, "Migrant Mother," 1936. From: Popular Photography, Feb. 1960).]
-- Dorothea Lange
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