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Migrant Mother and Children, February 1936

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.; used with permssion

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965). Migrant Mother and Children (Destitute pea pickers in California, a 32 year old mother of seven children), February 1936. Black-and-white photograph.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

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About Picturing America:

Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.

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