Florence Owens Thompson
Florence Owens Thompson , born Florence Leona Christie, was the subject of Dorothea Langes famous photo Migrant Mother , an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirtytwo. Nipomo, California.
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory, presentday Oklahoma. Her father, Jackson Christie, had abandoned her mother, Mary Jane Cobb, before Florence was born, and her mother remarried Charles Akman in the spring of 1905. The family lived on a small farm in Indian Territory outside of Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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