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Eighteen Year-Old Mother from Oklahoma, Now a California Migrant

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Dorothea Lange

Eighteen Year-Old Mother from Oklahoma, Now a California Migrant, 1937

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Courtesy of the Library of Congress

In this photograph by storied American photographer Dorothea Lange, a young migrant mother from Oklahoma looks wistfully over her child. As an artist, Lange faithfully captured the insecurity of the American working class in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Send this image to the woman in your life who will cross hell and high water to provide for those around her, who works without flinching to carve out a future for the people she calls her own.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress Office of War Information Photograph Collection

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