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Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression

By Don Nardo

Book information

Publisher
Capstone
Year
2019
ISBN
9780756565329, 9780756543976, 9780756544485, 2010038578
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
19 MB (19803736 bytes)
Series
Captured History
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-20 11:02:07
History; Juvenile Nonfiction; Photography; Geograp

Description

In the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange traveled the American West documenting the experiences of those devastated by the Great Depression. She wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change, but even she could hardly have expected the effect that a simple portrait of a worn-looking woman and her children would have on history. This image, taken at a migrant workers' camp in Nipomo, California, would eventually come to be seen as the very symbol of the Depression. The photograph helped reveal the true cost of the disaster on human lives and shocked the U.S. government into providing relief for the millions of other families devastated by the Depression.

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