Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her work during the 1930s with Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA). Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Lange studied ...

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 ...

But even with federal efforts underway, the Dust Bowl continued over the rest of the decade. Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, her famous portrait of Florence Owens Thompson taken in 1936 ...

On a raw, soggy day in March 1936, Dorothea Lange was driving home to ... an idea he would eventually turn into a book, Dust Bowl Descent. At about the same time, Florence Thompson, the woman ...