The picture is best known as "Migrant Mother," a black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her children. Lange was traveling ...

In March 1936, Lange was working in Nipomo, California, where she encountered Florence Owens Thompson and her children at a pea-pickers’ camp. The camp was populated by farming families who had ...