Dorthea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview

Abstract

Handout of Dorthea Lange's "Migrant Mother" - The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorthea Lange made in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration. In...

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Subject Area(s):

Visual Sociology

Resource Type(s):

Bibliography

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Any