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Dorothea Lange Photographs the Great Depression

Women's History in Pictures

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

Courtesy of Library of Congress

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