Photo of a “Migrant Mother” by Dorthea Lange. The photograph depicts the 32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson with three of her children in Nipomo, California. It was taken in 1936 for the Farm Security Administration. This and many other superb photographs are available online for download from the Library of Congress in extremely high resolution and they are licensed for free use.

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