{"id":30455,"date":"2019-02-03T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=30455"},"modified":"2019-02-03T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T20:15:00","slug":"theres-a-lot-more-to-that-iconic-photo-of-a-dust-bowl-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/02\/03\/theres-a-lot-more-to-that-iconic-photo-of-a-dust-bowl-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a lot more to that iconic photo of a Dust Bowl mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating story that I was unaware of: As Jason Kottke points out, the iconic picture of a mother cradling her children during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s has become a symbol of the Great Depression, but there is <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/01\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langes-migrant-mother\">a lot more to it than it first appears<\/a>. For one thing, the woman in question wasn&#8217;t a resident of the migrant camp where it was taken &#8212; she had stopped to fix the family&#8217;s car &#8212; and she was also a full-blooded Cherokee<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"481\" data-attachment-id=\"30558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother.png?fit=679%2C622&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"679,622\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother.png?fit=525%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother.png?w=679&#038;resize=525%2C481\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother.png?w=679&amp;ssl=1 679w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-making-of-an-iconic-photograph-dorothea-langee28099s-migrant-mother.png?resize=300%2C275&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating story that I was unaware of: As Jason Kottke points out, the iconic picture of a mother cradling her children during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s has become a symbol of the Great Depression, but there is a lot more to it than it first appears. For one thing, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/02\/03\/theres-a-lot-more-to-that-iconic-photo-of-a-dust-bowl-mother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot more to that iconic photo of a Dust Bowl mother&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}