Dorothea Lange's
Migrant Mother shows poor children in
California with their 32-year-old mother, Florence Owens Thompson. She said "that they had been living on frozen
vegetables from ... fields, and
birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her
car to buy
food. There she sat in
that ... tent with her
children ... around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.