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 AmericansPledge of Allegiance, Raphael Weill Elementary School, San Francisco
1942
A few weeks prior to evacuation.
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