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    These sources focus on one aspect of the book, the Migrant Mother image photographed by Dorothea. These primary sources mainly focus on other images of children and families taken by Lange in California in 1936, the same state and year Migrant Mother was photographed.

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    Mother and three children in a California squatter camp
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    [String bean harvest, Marion County, Willamette Valley, Oregon]
    Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in the American River Camp near Sacramento, California
    Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California. Five children, aged two to seventeen years
    Migratory family in auto camp. California
    Grandmother of twenty-two children living in Kern County migrant camp. California
    1936 drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California
    Drought refugees in California migrant camp
    Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California
    Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley
    Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California
    Migrants, family of Mexicans, on road with tire trouble. Looking for work in the peas. California
    El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum
    Drought refugees. California
    Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by the Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had gone back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter
    Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno
    Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview
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