Many years after Dorothea Lange's iconic 1936 photograph, a reporter asked Florence Owens Thompson about the life she eked out for her family. "We just existed," she said, with no sentimentality ...

But Florence Owens Thompson, the woman depicted in the photograph, did not feel there was a sort of equality about it and remembered the encounter quite differently.

OROVILLE — Her haggard and lined face, surrounded by the tousled heads of her daughters, is one of the most famous photographs shot during the Depression. Florence Owens Thompson was 32 years… ...

In fact, McIntosh's mother - Florence Owens Thompson, a farm worker who raised 10 children and died in 1983 - has become a national symbol of both maternal strength and the worst rural poverty.

One of the most iconic images of the twentieth century is a photograph of a 32-year-old woman, Florence Owens Thompson, looking beaten down but not defeated. Two of her children crowd close to her as ...

Thompson, Florence L. 98, of Heritage Woods in Yorkville, formerly of Newark, IL, died September 9, 2011 at The Tillers Nursing Center in Oswego. Born October 1, 1912, in Mission Twp., LaSalle Coun… ...

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 ...

Sometimes the story behind the story is just as interesting as what hits the news page, and that’s the case in the Florence Owens Thompson story we printed on Saturday’s front page. Thompson ...

Her mother, then-32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson, had seven children at the time, who worked with her in the fields, picking cotton.