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Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
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Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California
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This poignant photograph, captured by the renowned American photographer Dorothea Lange in 1936, depicts the desperate reality of a migrant agricultural worker's family in Nipomo, California during the Great Depression. The image, titled "Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian," is a haunting testament to the displacement and destitution experienced by countless families during this period. The photograph shows a mother, Florence Owens Thompson, seated on a makeshift bed in a makeshift camp, surrounded by her seven hungry children. The children, all under the age of ten, gaze intently at the camera with expressions of exhaustion and desperation. The mother, her face etched with lines of worry and concern, holds a kerosene lamp, casting an eerie glow over the scene. The family, like so many others, had been forced to leave their homes and migrate to California in search of work. The father, a native Californian, was unable to find employment in the rural countryside and was reduced to begging for food for his family. The image is a stark reminder of the human cost of the economic depression and the displacement it caused. The photograph, now held in the Library of Congress, has become an iconic image of the Great Depression and a symbol of the resilience and determination of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Dorothea Lange, who captured this moment with her camera, was a pioneer in documenting the social and economic conditions of the time, using her art to bring attention to the plight of the displaced and the destitute.
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