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.

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.” ...

Florence Owens Thompson became a legend of the strength of motherhood. And to so many people then, and to many more today, she is the embodiment of that legend.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...