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on a raw, soggy day in March 1936, Dorothea Lange was driving home to Berkeley after six weeks spent photographing migrant workers in California, New Mexico and Arizona. Her staff position at the Resettlement Administration (RA), an agency set up to help tenant farmers during the Depression, was tenuous: since there was no budget for a photographer, Lange had been hired as a clerk-stenographer, and she invoiced her film and travel expenses under "clerical supplies."
As Lange drove along the empty California highway that day, she noticed a sign that said Pea-Pickers Camp. Knowing that the pea crop had frozen, she debated for 20 miles before finally turning back. After pulling into the camp's muddy lane, Lange approached a female migrant worker, requested and got permission to photograph her and shot just five exposures. Lange's field notes read in part: "I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was 32. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food."
Back home, Lange developed the images and, clutching the still-wet prints, told the editor of the San Francisco News that migrant workers were slowly starving to death in Nipomo, California.
–“Migrant Madonna,”
Rebecca Maksel,
2002
What is the historical context of these sources? Check all that apply.
-The photograph was taken during the Great Depression.
-The nation was at war when the photo was taken.
-Unemployment was high in 1936.
-The Resettlement Administration provided relief to Americans affected by the Depression.
-The living conditions for most migrant farm workers during this time were satisfactory and comfortable.
