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Florence Owens Thompson

Native-American farm worker, subject of Dorothea Lange's famous photo Migrant Mother

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born
1903
died
1983
age at death
80
known for
farmworker

1903 – 1983

Portrait of Florence Owens Thompson

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Florence Owens Thompson was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California." Thompson was called the "Mona Lisa of the 1930s."

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