Migrant Mother
1936
Location - California
- Working as a photographer for Depression-era government to raise awareness of struggling farmers.
- Pea-pickers camp in California.
- Seven children.
- Frozen vegetables and birds killed by children.
- Photo published in the paper (San Francisco News)
- Tagline - "What does the New Deal Mean To This Mother and Her Children"
- Farmers driven west due to Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
- Great Depression, 1930's, economic decline.
- Dust Bowl, 1930's, Plains region, Agriculture.
- New Deal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1930's, Financial Reform - Public Work Project and Regulations.
Made photographs to influence social change.
Assigned to document World War II internment of Japanese Americans
Pledge of Allegiance, Raphael Weill Elementary School, San Francisco
1942
A few weeks prior to evacuation.
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