The Great Depression                                                                    This is a picture called “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange.      
     The photo was taken in 1936 when Dorothea visited the mother where she lived in a “pea picker’s camp” in California. The women was 32 years old, had seven kids, and her husband was a “native Californian” who could not support the family any better than she could. The result was that the women in the photo and her children could only eat peas and the occasional bird that her children shot down with sling shots. This picture has become one of the biggest iconic pictures of the Great Depression,
       Lange was a famous American photographer who got her education in New York City by a man named Clarence White. After she received her education she went and apprenticed at many studios in New York, and in 1918 she moved to San Fransisco to open up her own portrait studio which she succeeded in. In 1920 she married a famous painter by the name of Maynard Dixon and in 1929, when the Great Depression set in, she took to the streets to get photos such as the one shown above. She lived the remainder of her life in Berkeley. The women in Lange’s photo is a perfect icon of the Great Depression.