florence owens thompson
Her name was Florence, she was just 32 years old and had come from Oklahoma to California some dozen years before, to a land of promise — a promise which, for her, had not been kept. [1]
Surprisingly, Lange did not record her subject’s name or history; she was subsequently identified as Florence Thompson, a 32-year-old mother of seven. [2]
Florence Owens Thompson (September 1, 1903 - September 16, 1983), born Florence Leona Christie, was the subject of Dorothea Lange ’s photo Migrant Mother (1936), an iconic image of the Great Depression. [3]
Hi my name is Roger Sprague, I’m the grandson of Florence (Owens) Thompson otherwise known as the Migrant Mother. [4]
Cleo had married Florence over the objections of his own family, who all felt that Florence was too headstrong. [...] She and her children remember well the government camp at Lamont (near weed patch). [1]
It is my intent to use this website as a link to help people gain information on and about my Grandmother, Florence (Owens)Thompson, the person in the Dorthea Lange photograph “Migrant Mother”. [4]
Lange, then employed by the Resettlement Administration (RA) under Roy Stryker, visited the camp on impulse while travelling with her husband, Paul Taylor. [...] Florence, born in Oklahoma and of Cherokee Indian descent, married farmer Cleo Owens on St. Valentine’s Day in 1921. [2]
In 1922, Florence and Cleo Owens moved to Shafter, California. [3]
The last and most tightly composed of six pictures of a woman and children at a migrant pea-pickers’ camp in Nipomo, California, on a wet day in early March 1936. [2]
Florence, born in Oklahoma and of Cherokee descent, married farmer Cleo Owens on St. Valentine’s Day in 1921. [...] Migrant Mother, taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936. [3]
They hoped now to make enough money to fix the car and move on to the next field, the next crop on the Harvest Trail. [...] Migrant was the polite word; most just called them Okies even though these “Okies” came from all over the Midwest, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. [1]
Sources:
[1] The Story (www.migrantgrandson.com/the.htm)
[2] Florence Owens Thompson: Information from Answers.com (www.answers.com/topic/
[3] Florence Owens Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
[4] MigrantGrandson, Grandson of the Migrant Mother by Dorthea Lange (www.migrantgrandson.com/default.htm)