Florence Owens Thompson

Phtographed American

Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie;September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.

The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California.Mother of seven children.Age thirty-two.Nipomo, California."