Hi Helen,
 
You wrote:

<<Maybe you Americans  might  be able to  help me  with perception here.
I've a book called something  like  'iconic photographs' , well, it's about 
iconic  photographs anyway.  One of them is the   photo of the migrant  
mother, Florence Thompson nursing her  baby in a  roadside shelter.    There 
were others of her,  but   this one seems to be the most famous.  Does anyone 
 
know when it  became  so famous?     Was it in the 50s or 60s  , or was it 
earlier.   Or even later,   Just wondering where this  image of poverty  and 
breastfeeding  fits  in. >>
 
The famous series of photographs of Florence Thompson was taken by Dorothea  
Lange in 1936 during the Great Depression. Lange was photo-documenting the  
conditions of migrant farm workers for the federal Farm Security  Administration.
 
I don't know when the photo became so widely known although newspapers  could 
publish the pictures taken by the FSA photographers freely. The  Migrant 
Mother photos were also exhibited in 1941. The wikipedia entry for  Florence 
Thompson shows all six of the photographs.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Warmly,
Carol Kelley   LLLL
Taylors, SC
 
 








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