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  1. Dorothea Lange and Social Documentary during the Great Depression
    date March 1, 1936 to March 1, 1940map Imperial, Californiatags Migrant workers, Photography, FSA, Social documentary, The Great Depression

    Her young child sits at her feet, eating the dirt that covers so much of their existence. The tent containing all of the family’s worldly belongings displays a tattered existence. The desolate background and the despair on her face shows the plight of so many during the latter part of the Great Depression. Taken in 1937 by Dorothea Lange, the picture titled "Eighteen-year-old mother from Oklahoma,...