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Eyes of the Great Depression 008

November 23, 2008

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A mother in California who with her husband and her two children will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. This family had lost a two-year-old baby during the winter as a result of exposure.

1937 Mar.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

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teeni November 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM

She almost doesn’t look old enough to be a mom, forget having lost a two-year-old. How sad.

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Dot November 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM

She looks so lost.

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