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Dorothea Lange Photographs the Great Depression

Women's History in Pictures

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Photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled the 20th century in her extraordinary images of ordinary people in ordinary situations. In this iconic image of the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange depicts a migrant farmworker in California in March, 1936. The image is known as Migrant Mother.
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange, March 1936

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange, March 1936 - a portrait of a migrant farmworker in California

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