We often use this picture when discussing Poverty. We are settting up a monument to dedicate the

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spot where it was taken


It was taken in Nipomo, CA a few miles up the coast from where I live.

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

The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children 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 1960, Lange gave this account of the experience:

https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html


Website set up for donations to create ‘Migrant Mother’ marker in Nipomo

Individuals and businesses that want to help place a marker commemorating the “Migrant Mother” photograph taken in Nipomo can donate funds through a website set up by the National Press Photographers Foundation.

Paul Lester, a clinical professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, who has been working on having a marker placed for several years, announced the establishment of the fund Saturday.

http://santamariatimes.com/news/local/website-set-up-for-donations-to-create-migrant-mother-marker/article_841e8b7a-df06-542c-87dd-a0cbbb473b49.html