Migrant agricultural worker's family

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute. Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the Migrant Mother series

Californian Destitute Failure Hungry Migrant Nipomo Picker Thirty

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