File:LangeMigrantMother.jpg

TITLE: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 009058-C [P&P] LC-USF346-009058-C b&w film transparency LC-USF347-009058-C b&w film safety neg.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516 (b&w digital file from nitrate neg.) LC-USF34-T01-009058-C (b&w film dup. neg.) LC-DIG-ppmsca-12883 (digital file from print)

SUMMARY: Portrait shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother."

MEDIUM: 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Feb.

CREATOR:

Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

NOTES:

Title from caption card.

This is the original nitrate negative for "Migrant Mother" (LC-USF34-009058-C). It was retouched in the 1930s to erase the thumb holding a tent pole in lower right hand corner. The file print made before the thumb was retouched can be seen in copy negative LC-USZ62-95653.

Part of the "Migrant Mother" series.

A copy transparency (LC-USF346-009058-C) and a copy safety negative (LC-USF347-009058-C) are also in the collection.

LOT 0344 (Location of corresponding print.)

Libary of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide. Washington : Library

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga

Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.

TOPICS:

Migrants--California

SUBJECTS:

Migrant agricultural laborers. Mothers & children. Poor persons. United States--California--San Luis Obispo County--Nipomo.

FORMAT:

Nitrate negatives. Portrait photographs. Group portraits.

OTHER TITLE:

Migrant mother.

PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

DIGITAL ID: (b&w digital file from nitrate neg.) fsa 8b29516 (digital file from print) ppmsca 12883 http://hdl.loc.gov/pnp.loc/ppmsca.12883

OTHER NUMBER: J 339168

CARD #: fsa1998021539/PP