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June 1979 image of Florence Owens Thompson (seated) with her three daughters, Katherine McIntosh (standing on the left), Ruby Sprague (standing on the right), and Norma Rydlewski (leaning on her mother's lap). The photo was taken at daughter Norma's house in Modesto, California and the arrangement of Thompson and her daughters is similar to how they were in Migrant Mother.

ganzelgroup.com Originally printed in Dust Bowl Descent (1984) by Bill Ganzel ISBN 080322107X

Florence Owens Thompson

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Given the powerful image of weight of the Great Depression on Thompson and her three girls, the image significantly increases readers' understanding of to what degree Florence Owens Thompson and her three girls survived the Great Depression. Here, the image serves as a visual means essential to understanding the article's written description what happened to Thompson and her girls.

There is no free equivalent of this image. The moment-in-time image cannot be replaced by an existing or created free image that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. Both Florence and her daughter Ruby Sprague are deceased and a free contemporary image would not convey the same information.

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