Young Migrant Worker
Carol Gauldin
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Back in the Great depression and the Dust Bowls Photographers came in and documented the Migrant workers life's.. They were trying to get others to feel their pain and didn't realize in the process that they created history told over and over throughout the years .. I know in my heart hard times are still here for modern days, even in my own country.. we just choose not to see it. It breaks my heart to see how we have become and the children suffer.I don't know why I felt so emotional with this one but my mind could not stop thinking of how this young boy grew up.. Where is he now .. How this life effected him..How I wanted to wrap my arms around him .. so many emotions .
Tent Family
Carol Gauldin
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Migrant Mother
Carol Gauldin
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The photograph popularly known as “Migrant Mother” has become an icon of the Great Depression. The compelling image of a mother and her children is actually one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California.
Whatever the woman, Florence Owens Thompson, thought of Lange's actions at the time, she came to regret that Lange ever made the photographs, which she felt permanently colored her with a “Grapes of Wrath” stereotype. Thompson, a Native American from Oklahoma, had already lived in California for a decade when Lange photographed her. The immediate popularity of the images in the press did nothing to alleviate the financial distress that had spurred the family to seek seasonal agricultural work. Contrary to the despairing immobility the famous image seems to embody, however, Thompson was an active participant in farm labor struggles in the 1930s, occasionally serving as an organizer. Her daughter later commented, “She was a very strong woman. She was a leader. That is one of the reasons she resented the photo—because it didn't show her in that light.”
Migrant workers Children
Carol Gauldin
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Migrant workers Children of Belle Glade, Florida,Their parents were Packinghouse workers.They lived in this lean to made of rusty tin and burlap.. Children were left alone for the entire day while their parents worked .. The oldest were left to care for the youngest.
Homeless Mother
Carol Gauldin
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I have been learning so much from doing these sort of drawings .. More than I had imagined .. I had always heard of the hard times my parents and Grandparents had endured but actually seeing the faces and the reading about their personal stories it has indeed caused my Art to go in a different direction.. Perhaps It isn't for everyone to grasp as Art but for me it's how I am feeling at this time.
Children In Makeshift Trailer
Carol Gauldin
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A Migratory Family Living in a trailer in an open field, near Roswell.,No sanitation, no water. They came from Amarillo,pulled cotton bolls,and picked Cotton....
Cotton pickers
Carol Gauldin
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The Great Depression era and Hard Times for Arkansas Cotton Pickers ..
Cotton Picker
Carol Gauldin
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Christmas Dinner
Carol Gauldin
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Christmas Dinner in the home of Earl Pauley,near Smithland ,Iowa 1935. The Depression Era.
Children on makeshift mattress
Carol Gauldin
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Children of the Oklahoma Refugees in migratory Camp in California November 1936. Brother and Sister laying on a makeshift mattress.
children on horse
Carol Gauldin
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The Great Depression
Product Type: Set
Date created: 2009-09-27
Time created: 15:31:47
Young Migrant Worker
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Back in the Great depression and the Dust Bowls Photographers came in and documented the Migrant workers life's.. They were trying to get others to feel their pain and didn't realize in the process that they created history told over and over throughout the years .. I know in my heart hard times are still here for modern days, even in my own country.. we just choose not to see it. It breaks my heart to see how we have become and the children suffer.I don't know why I felt so emotional with this one but my mind could not stop thinking of how this young boy grew up.. Where is he now .. How this life effected him..How I wanted to wrap my arms around him .. so many emotions .
Tent Family
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Migrant Mother
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The photograph popularly known as “Migrant Mother” has become an icon of the Great Depression. The compelling image of a mother and her children is actually one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California.
Whatever the woman, Florence Owens Thompson, thought of Lange's actions at the time, she came to regret that Lange ever made the photographs, which she felt permanently colored her with a “Grapes of Wrath” stereotype. Thompson, a Native American from Oklahoma, had already lived in California for a decade when Lange photographed her. The immediate popularity of the images in the press did nothing to alleviate the financial distress that had spurred the family to seek seasonal agricultural work. Contrary to the despairing immobility the famous image seems to embody, however, Thompson was an active participant in farm labor struggles in the 1930s, occasionally serving as an organizer. Her daughter later commented, “She was a very strong woman. She was a leader. That is one of the reasons she resented the photo—because it didn't show her in that light.”
Migrant workers Children
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Migrant workers Children of Belle Glade, Florida,Their parents were Packinghouse workers.They lived in this lean to made of rusty tin and burlap.. Children were left alone for the entire day while their parents worked .. The oldest were left to care for the youngest.
Homeless Mother
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I have been learning so much from doing these sort of drawings .. More than I had imagined .. I had always heard of the hard times my parents and Grandparents had endured but actually seeing the faces and the reading about their personal stories it has indeed caused my Art to go in a different direction.. Perhaps It isn't for everyone to grasp as Art but for me it's how I am feeling at this time.
Children In Makeshift Trailer
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A Migratory Family Living in a trailer in an open field, near Roswell.,No sanitation, no water. They came from Amarillo,pulled cotton bolls,and picked Cotton....
Cotton pickers
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The Great Depression era and Hard Times for Arkansas Cotton Pickers ..
Cotton Picker
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Christmas Dinner
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Christmas Dinner in the home of Earl Pauley,near Smithland ,Iowa 1935. The Depression Era.
Children on makeshift mattress
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Children of the Oklahoma Refugees in migratory Camp in California November 1936. Brother and Sister laying on a makeshift mattress.
children on horse
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