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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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