Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
Disaster and Government Response: The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal #8016
Metadata
Date: March 1936
Location: Nipomo, California
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-9097-C
Caption
Migrant agricultural worker’s family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32. Father is a native Californian.
Rights
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