Carol
 never thought to look   on wikipedia.  So thanks for  directing  me there, 
all very  very interesting, especially  following the links, and the story 
behind the  family, and the differing perceptions of what happened, both 
then and since.  Also seeing how the  photo was touched up at some point to 
present her as less careworn, more glamorous than she was.   I'd assumed 
from what I had read that the  nursing photo was one of the ones used in the 
newspaper, but maybe it wasn't.
Helen
  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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