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Thompson, Florence Owens, 1903-1983

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Personal name headingThompson, Florence Owens, 1903-1983
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Birth date1903-09-01
Death date1983-09-16
Place of birthTahlequah (Okla.)
Place of deathScotts Valley (Calif.)
Field of activityMigrant labor
Profession or occupationAgricultural laborers
Found inLibrary of Congress Manuscript Division for the Florence Owen Thompson papers (Florence Owens Thompson; born Sept. 1, 1903, in Tahlequah, Indian Territory, U.S.; died on Sept. 16, 1983, in Scotts Valley, Calif.; migrant agricultural laborer; known for her image in the Dorothea Lange photograph, Migrant Mother, taken Mar. 1936)
Sugarman, Dorothy Alexander, La Gran DepresioĢn [ER], 2020 : page three (Florence Owens is a widowed migrant worker, mother of seven, who lived during the Great Depression. Photographer Dorothea Lange took her picture.)
Associated languageeng