“The Migrant Mother,” a photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, remains one of the most enduring images of the Great ...

The migrant mother was not, as the photo's caption identified her, a destitute pea picker. Florence Leona Christie was born in 1903. She was a Native American born to Cherokee parents in what was, ...

On March 11, 1936, Dorthea Lange’s iconic image, Migrant Mother, was published in the San Francisco News. Since that first publication, the iconic photo has come to represent America’s Great ...

The image she titled “Migrant Mother” became the late photographer’s most famous work, capturing the dirt and despair of that era through the eyes of a 32-year-old woman who had just sold ...

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 ...

The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She ...

Katherine McIntosh, daughter of Florence Thompson, who is the woman in Dorothea Lange's iconic "Migrant Mother" photo (left from the mother). McIntosh is one of the kids with Thompson in the photo.

This iconic photo exists because of the unlivable Dust Bowl conditions strangling the Midwest.