The most famous photo ever created in San Luis Obispo County is “Migrant Mother.” The image by Dorothea Lange is of a woman under lean-to tent with her children Norma, Katherine and Ruby. A public ...

A 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange came to define the Great Depression, but the real story of the ‘Migrant Mother’ was far ...

Hardship and despair poured from the photograph. A woman, her face burdened and beset by worry, stares off into the distance. On either side of her, children bury their faces into her shoulder.

From 1935-1944, the US government did something unthinkable today: It funded art. To curry support for the Farm Security Administration’s programs to benefit farmworker families displaced by the Great ...

When the poet Tess Taylor moved back to El Cerrito after 15 years on the East Coast, she returned to a hometown she had “never really loved” in her youth. But this time, it was a different place, and ...

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Introduction to a Defining Image In 1936, during the depths of the Great Depression, a single photograph encapsulated the ...