The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great Depression in the United States. This poignant image has become a symbol of the ...

Florence Owens Thompson was 32 years old when she was pictured in 1936 by renown photographer Dorothea Lange, in an image later called “Migrant Mother.” ...

The famed photo “Migrant Mother” becomes a full-length play for Prospect Theater Project. Tells the story of the meeting between Dorothea Lange and Florence Owens Thompson, the latter who ...

Two Depression-era American women met for the briefest of moments one day in March, 1936, and it was the fallout from extreme weather -- punishing drought and relentless heat that persisted for ...

When Florence Owens Thompson died at 79 in Santa Cruz in 1983, The Bee's Corrigan wrote that the photo “didn't help Mrs. Thompson financially, but publication of it in newspapers stirred the ...

Florence Thompson — no, you probably wouldn’t recognize the name, but few can forget her face from Dorothea Lange’s iconic 1936 photograph Migrant Mother. Florence Thompson was 27 years old ...

The unnamed Migrant Mother was seen as a role model for the poor and dispossessed, and, according to Hindman, established Lange as a “socially-conscious and uncompromising photojournalist.” It wasn’t ...

The face of America in the 1930s wasn’t the confident visage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but a woman named Florence Owens Thompson. She was a Cherokee — observe the cheekbones. On her ...

is inspired by a classic American photograph and the women on either side of the camera when it was taken. The photograph is called "Migrant Mother," the subject was Florence Owens Thompson and ...

I shied away from Marisa Silver's new novel because of its book jacket: a reproduction of Dorothea Lange's iconic Depression-era photograph called "Migrant Mother." You know it: the woman's strong ...

Two Depression-era American women met for the briefest of moments one day in March, 1936, and it was the fallout from extreme weather -- punishing drought and relentless heat that persisted for ...