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Section 2: Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • Destitute Pea Pickers in California. Mother of Seven Children. Age Thirty-Two. Nipomo, California (Migrant Mother), Dorothea Lange, Library of Congress, 1936
    • “Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection,” Hanna Soltys, Library of Congress
    • Photographers of the Dust Bowl, Ken Burns, PBS, 2012
  • Unit Reader
    • “How Photography Defined the Great Depression,” Annette McDermott, A&E Television Networks, LLC., 2018
    • Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression: “Chapter 1: Snapping an Iconic Photo,” “Chapter 2: A Nation Fallen on Hard Times,” Don Nardo, Capstone, 2011

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother), Dorothea Lange, Google Arts and Culture, 1936
    • “Meet 10 Depression-Era Photographers Who Captured the Struggle of Rural America,” Kat Eschner, Smithsonian Magazine, 2017
  • Unit Reader
    • “Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’,” James Estrin, The New York Times Company, 2018