Many decades after this photograph was made we learned that the sitter, the Migrant Mother, whose name is Florence Owens Thompson, was in fact Cherokee. And that raises all kinds of questions about ...

Many decades after this photograph was made we learned that the sitter, the Migrant Mother, whose name is Florence Owens Thompson, was in fact Cherokee. And that raises all kinds of questions about ...

A Guatemalan mother and her family were held for five days after a wrong turn toward Canada led to an immigration nightmare.

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 ...

Dorothea Lange’s photo of a mother and her children became the iconic image of the Great Depression. But both Lange and the woman in the photo came to wish she hadn’t taken it.

When Dorothea Lange captured the image known as “Migrant Mother” in 1936, she inadvertently created an enduring symbol of the Great Depression’s widespread hardship. The woman in the photograph, ...

Florence Owens Thompson’s life was like many who endured the Great Depression—marked by hardship, migration, and resilience. Yet her visage, captured in Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph, ...

Migrant Mother, her best-known picture, from 1936, is a stark reminder of the times Curator Philip Brookman sees worry in the migrant mother's face. Three children, the older ones clinging to her. She ...

Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.