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Florence Owens Thompson
American farm worker, subject of Dorothea Lange's photo 'Migrant Mother' (1903–1983)
"Florence Thompson" redirects here. For the Manitoba librarian, see Florence Davy Thompson.
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
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The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California."[1] Thompson was called the "Mona Lisa of the 1930s."[2][3][4]
Biography
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.
Both of her parents claimed Cherokee descent.[5] Her father, Jackson Christie, allegedly abandoned her mother, Mary Jane Cobb, before she was born, and