Summary

DescriptionMigrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California ppmsca03054u.jpg	English: Photography of Florence Owens Thompson, known as "Migrant Mother", Pea-Pickers Camp, Nipomo, California.
Date	March 1936
Source	https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017762908/   This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.03054. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html
Author	Dorothea Lange  (1895–1965)      Alternative names Birth name: Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; Dorothea Nutzhorn; Dorothea Lange Taylor; Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Dixon Taylor Lange; Dorothea Lange Description American-German journalist, photojournalist, photographer, documentarian and artist Date of birth/death 26 May 1895  11 October 1965  Location of birth/death Hoboken San Francisco Work location United States of America; San Francisco  Authority file : Q230673 VIAF: 77594538 ISNI: 0000000368538723 ORCID: 0000-0002-9833-7917 ULAN: 500007674 LCCN: n79100159 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q230673
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TITLE

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

MEDIUM

1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

CREATOR

Lange, Dorothea^(w), photographer.

NOTES

Title and other information from caption card.

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

DIGITAL ID

(digital file from original file print) ppmsca 03054 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03054

(digital file from original file print) ppmsc 00230 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00230

(digital file from b&w film copy neg. of file print) cph 3b06165 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b06165

OTHER NUMBER

J 355

CONTROL #

fsa1998021557/PP

Licensing

This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.