Mother of Seven
Photograph
Mother of Seven
Migrant Mother
"The Bitter Years" in California
1936
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (24 × 19 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0387
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Bitter Years) 10/62 11) Mother of Seven: This photograph, taken in \ a camp of destitute pea pickers in Central California in \ 1936, has become a classic symbol of the strain of survival \ in " the bitter years." \ Credit: Dorothea Lange from F.S.A.
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