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Topic: Florence Owens Thompson

	The Story
		Her name was Florence, she was just 32 years old and had come from Oklahoma to California some dozen years before, to a land of promise -- a promise which, for her, had not been kept.
		Florence, in contrast, was only 17 when she informed Cleo's family that they would never rule her or her kids.
		Florence sat up the tent at the entrance to the new camp; she didn't want Jim to miss her when he came walking down the road.
	www.migrantgrandson.com /the.htm (2086 words)

	math lessons - Florence Owens Thompson
		In September of 1929, Florence gave birth to the fifth of her 10 children, a girl, Ruby.
		As families started leaving the town Florence started to move with her children from one town to another, from one camp to the next.
		Florence set up a camp there and Jim Hill, a man who had started living with Florence and her two sons, left to get help for their car.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Florence_Owens_Thompson (566 words)

	"Migrant Mother, Florence Thompson" in Arts on NET OnLine
		In 1936, Florence was a refugee in her own country.
		Displaced from her home in Oklahoma in the early 1930s, Florence and her family were travelling from one small California farming town to another, looking for work.
		Florence and her family came through the Depression and worked their way into the middle class.
	net.unl.edu /artsFeat/ap_migrantmother.html (395 words)

	Migrant Mother (kottke.org)
		When she took the photo, Lange neglected to note the woman's name (or other details) so her identity remained anonymous while the photo went on to become a symbol of the Great Depression.
		In the late 1970s, Florence Owens Thompson revealed herself to be the woman in the photo after she wrote a letter to her local paper saying that she didn't like the image.
		Thompson and her family weren't typical Depression migrants at all; they'd been living in California for almost 10 years.
	www.kottke.org /07/04/migrant-mother (230 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / People : Two women and a photograph
		Florence Owens Thompson was born on September 1, 1903, in the Indian Territory of the Cherokee Nation (now Oklahoma) and spent her childhood and early youth on a small family farm outside Tahlequah.
		When she was 17, Florence married Cleo Owens and in the next decade, became mother to six children.
		For one, the identity of the sitter (Florence) in Lange's picture was not known till the late 1970s when Florence expressed disdain for the image and declared that she felt "exploited" by Lange's portrait.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2006/04/30/stories/2006043000380500.htm (1227 words)

	New Times - San Luis Obispo - Cover Story - Photographic license (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Perhaps the greatest historical inaccuracy fostered by the Lange photograph was the perception that Florence Owens Thompson and her family were typical Dust Bowl refugees of European descent who had joined the great ’30s migration to California from the drought-plagued farmlands of the Midwest.
		Florence, the children and Jim Hill had been picking beets in the Imperial Valley in March of 1936 when they packed up their Hudson sedan and headed north toward Watsonville, where they had hoped to find work in the lettuce fields of the Pajaro Valley.
		Florence Owens Thompson’s tempestuous relationship with the famous photograph of her took a final, ironic twist in the final months of her life.
	www.newtimes-slo.com /archives/cov_stories_2002/cov_01172002.html (3213 words)

	THOMPSON FAMILY GENEALOGY
		Biddy THOMPSON was born in 1805 and died in 1850.
		Nancy THOMPSON was born in 1806 and died in 1853.
		Delila THOMPSON was born in 1812 and died in 1848.
	www.angelfire.com /ok/barkergenealogy/thompson.html (2055 words)

	The Wanacott Family of Bishop, California (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They chose the Owens River Valley as their ultimate goal and arrived in 1874 at what was then known as the Love Bridge, now ridges.
		Florence Huckaby married Joe Smith, a different Smith and she was in Laws for years.
		Near town is the Owens River, now a kind of brackish looking stream, wouldn't drink the water, for sure.
	www.owensvalleyhistory.com /wonacott_family/page70.html (2032 words)

	The Depression, sunny side up \| Review \| The Observer
		Likewise Lange's starkly poetic portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, entitled Migrant Mother, which remains the single most haunting portrait of that beleaguered era.
		Thompson was just 32 years old when photographed, but her worried and weather-beaten face is that of someone twice her age.
		A mother of seven, she was one of a vagrant community of destitute pea-pickers who had journeyed in vain to the once-promised land of California.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1980000,00.html (1147 words)

	Current Biography Excerpts: Track and Field
		Before the United States Olympic Trials in July 1988, Florence Griffith Joyner was better known for her fashion flair than for her feats in track.
		That all changed in the space of forty-eight hours when she shattered the previous world record of 10.76 seconds in the 100-meter dash four times (although the first time was discounted because of the wind) with, respectively, a 10.60, 10.49, 10.71, and 10.61.
		Unbeaten in the decathlon, the forty-eight-hour summa of running, jumping, and throwing, since 1978, Thompson has set new world records four times, and his current world-leading mark for the ten-event contest is 8,847 points.
	www.hwwilson.com /currentbio/track.html (3930 words)

	06.03.10: Dorothea Lange and Documentary Modes of Expression
		The woman's name is Florence Owens Thompson, and she has a far different memory of the events at hand.
		Florence Owens Thompson, though from Oklahoma, was a full-blooded Native American, and her family had been displaced from tribal lands by the U.S. government.
		Though Thompson soon died, the experience helped her children come to terms with a photograph that had haunted them and their family for almost 50 years.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/2006/3/06.03.10.x.html (9819 words)

	OwensFamily of Greene Co.
		Elizabeth Owens, Executrix..............of the estate of the said Stephen Owens deceased, and that they would return the same certificed under their hands unto the same Elizabeth Owens.........................within the time presecribed by law.
		Eula Bitton Owens was born Nov. 5, 1893 and married Ulysses Coleman Stewart of Thomas County, GA on Aug. 18, 1912.
		Owens was captured at Missionary Ridge and spent the rest of the War a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio.
	home.earthlink.net /~rodbush/owensfam.htm (11082 words)

	blog.myspace.com/robo_chad
		For many, Florence Owens Thompson is the face of the Great Depression, thanks to legendary shutterbug Dorothea Lange.
		Thompson was a mother of seven who'd lost her husband to tuberculosis.
		Sadly, however, Thompson and her family had already moved on, receiving nary a wedge of government cheese for their high-profile misery.
	blog.myspace.com /robo_chad (5547 words)

	Gallery
		Florence is talking to Ruby, who is hiding behind her mother, as Lange took the picture.
		Florence stopped nursing Norma and Ruby has come out from behind her.
		Left to right in photo: Katherine Owens age 4, Florence Owens (later known as Thompson) age 32, Ruby Owens age 5.
	www.migrantgrandson.com /galary.htm (283 words)

	The Cincinnati Post
		Thurman "Jesse" Owens, 78, who rose to brigadier general in the Marines and later became an administrator at the University of Cincinnati, died Sunday.
		He enlisted in the Marines Corps Reserve straight out of high school in 1943 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1945, about a month before World War II ended in the Pacific.
		Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills, is handling the arrangements.
	www.cincypost.com /2004/02/24/obits022404.html (518 words)

	Migration News
		The woman was Florence Owens Thompson, a migrant from Oklahoma.
		Shindo notes that Lange, who was returning from a month-long photo trip and had only six shots left, did not talk to Florence Owens Thompson, the woman in the picture, or to other pea pickers in the camp.
		According to the now adult girls in the picture, the Thompson family was from the San Joaquin Valley, not the Midwest, and the reason they became farm workers was because their father died of an asthma attack, forcing the family to go on the road in search of farm work.
	migration.ucdavis.edu /rmn/more.php?id=788_0_6_0 (3361 words)

	Francis Thompson, 'The Hound of Heaven' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Francis Thompson went to London, and there endured three years of destitution that left him in a state of incipient disease.
		Francis Thompson died, after receiving all the sacraments, in the excellent care of the Sisters of St. John and St.
		In my now-lost convent library at Holmhurst St Mary we had all the published writings of Francis Thompson and Alice Meynell as Alice Meynell was a friend of our Mother Foundress Agnes Mason, and we often heard lectures given at the school on Alice Meynell's poetry.
	www.umilta.net /hound.html (1719 words)

	Education World ® - Lesson Planning: Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1930s
		On the afternoon of May 25, 1935, Ohio State University's track star Jesse Owens was credited with setting five world records and tying another.
		When Jesse Owens was born, he wasn't named "Jesse." Nor was he named "John Cleveland" or "James Cleveland," as recorded in many biographies of the track hero.
		Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Native American Florence Owens Thompson symbolizes the courage of Americans as they tried to survive the hard times of the Great Depression.
	www.education-world.com /a_lesson/lesson079.shtml (1407 words)

	Robert Thompson Robertson (1864-1920)
		Robert Thompson was born on 5 March 1864, in Sunderland,the son of James Robertson and Elizabeth Robertson, formerly Bell, formerly Thompson.
		Mary Ann was born in 1865, in Sunderland, the daughter of Cuthbert and Mary Owens.
		Susannah was born 30 April 1877, the daughter of Charles and Susannah Mills, in Monkwearmouth Shore.
	members.cox.net /ghgraham/robertrobertson.html (299 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Jones, Gebrselassie, Daehlie announced as Owens finalists - Wednesday January 13, 1999 01:51 PM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NEW YORK, New York (AP) -- Sprint sensation Marion Jones, long-distance record-holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia and Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist Bjorn Daehlie of Norway are the finalists for the 1999 Jesse Owens International Trophy Award.
		Jones was undefeated in the women's 100, 200 and 400 meters last year, and became the No. 2 career performer in the two shorter events, behind only Florence Griffith Joyner.
		Gebrselassie, winner of the Owens Award last year, set world records for the 5,000 meters and 10,000 during 1998.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/01/13/owens_trophy (253 words)

	Article:Chapel Talk - Redefining "Home": a Portable and Constant Companion
		This was photographer Dorothea Lange's journal entry on the day that she came upon a woman who we now know was named Florence Owens Thompson in a Pea Pickers Camp in California during the Great Depression.
		But regardless of all of the possible interpretations of this piece, the bottom line is that here, simply, is an image of strength in the face of fear.
		In this scene of desperation -- so far adrift from their comfort zone -- Florence Owens Thompson represents "home" for her family.
	www.holderness.org /article.asp?ID=710 (2384 words)

	Kathy
		She does need help, but she isn’t waiting around for anyone to come and hand it over to her either.
		This woman, Florence Owens Thompson, is already an active participant in the fight for not only her own future she is trying to help other migrant workers and farm laborers all around her.
		This woman, that looks so helpless and desperate for someone to come and help her find food and shelter for herself and her children, is actually a very strong woman.
	blog.lib.umn.edu /john5903/hardtimesandbadbehavior (780 words)

	COMM 171 - Images, Power, and Politics
		As an example of documentary photography, the image portrays in stark detail the suffering of "Okies" who struggled to survive in the fields of California.
		Historians recall that the image was one of six, each offering a different perspective of Thompson, some images even portraying a different number of children.
		Several researchers suggest that the selection of this image served to appease conservative newspaper editors who imagined that their readers would not identify with an impoverished woman caring for more than two children.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/wooda/171/171syllabus2chapter1.html (866 words)

	.:: The Montana Standard ::. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deer Lodge’s Haley Owens was selected for the District 7B all-conference and All-State volleyball teams.
		Only a junior, Owens lead the Wardens to the 2006 class-B state volleyball tournament in Bozeman and their first-round upset win over number-one seed Shelby.
		Joining Owens on the all-conference team were fellow Wardens Krystal Burns, Polly Squires, and Katie O’Hara.
	www.mtstandard.com /articles/2006/12/13/sportsprephighschool/hjjdihigjhihjc.txt (159 words)

	The history of amateur radio - 7
		Thanks to Eugene Wigner and his team at Princeton University, the quantum theory met semiconductors, preparing the ground for Bell Labs development of the first transitors twenty years later but, silent, it is still an industrial secret.
		Florence Owens Thompson, mother of 7 young kids, lost her job in 1931 and tried her luck with her family in California.
		It was pictured by Dorothea Lange in 1936 and became the symbol of Courage of all a nation.
	www.astrosurf.org /luxorion/qsl-ham-history7.htm (2456 words)

	MigrantGrandson, Grandson of the Migrant Mother by Dorthea Lange
		Hi my name is Roger Sprague, I'm the grandson of Florence (Owens) Thompson otherwise known as the Migrant Mother.
		It is my intent to use this website as a link to help people gain information on and about my Grandmother, Florence (Owens)Thompson, the person in the Dorthea Lange photograph "Migrant Mother".
		To help people to research on and about her, her children, and the people of the Great Depression Era.
	www.migrantgrandson.com (176 words)

	California Travel Attractions Tours Guide History Murders Posters Cemeteries Maps Ghosts Haunted Houses
		It was later learned that the woman was Florence Owens Thompson who had stopped in the camp with her husband and seven children.
		UPDATE – Florence, 80, suffering from cancer, died of a stroke in her son's home in Modesto on September 16, 1983.
		Her gravestone reads: "Migrant Mother" A Legend of the Strength of American Motherhood." In 1998, a stamp set "The Great Depression" was issued and one of them was the famous 1936 picture taken by Dorthea Lange of Florence Thompson with three of her children.
	www.yourhometown.org /page6.html (10024 words)

	news from me - ARCHIVES
		The stamp uses the famous 1936 picture taken by Dorthea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson with three of her children.
		My grandmother, Florence, died in Sept. 1983 at age 80, my mother, Ruby, died in Feb. 1990 at age 60.
		Congress was lobbied to allow for the photo to be turned into a stamp even though two of the persons were still living.
	www.newsfromme.com /archives/2003_10_30.html (1006 words)

	Giza aka Douglas Muth's LiveJournal - Post a comment
		For those of you who don't, the picture is of Florence Owens Thompson, a migrant pea picker who was living in a roadside camp in California during the Great Depression.
		The day after that picture was taken, it appeared on the front page of many newspapers, as a symbol of the poverty that migrant workers were living in.
		His Uncle got in his car and picked up Florence and her children that same day.
	giza.livejournal.com /400103.html?mode=reply (177 words)

	Series gets stamp of approval
		Dwayne Fair, a Sun Newspapers carrier from Maple Heights, participated in teh unveiling of the Celebrate the Century Series of stamps.
		"Dorthea Lange's 1936 photograph of native American Florence Thompson Owens symbolizes the courage of Americans as they tried to survive the hard times of the Great Depression," Fair recited over and over.
		The seventh grader knew he could handle getting on the big stage that had been set up in front of Tower City for the ceremony.
	www.sunnews.com /news/1998/0917/stamp.htm (485 words)

	30's stamps
		On the afternoon of May 25, 1935, Ohio State University's track star Jesse Owens was credited with setting five world records and tying another.
		You can find the answer to that question on the official Jesse Owens Web site.
		Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Native American Florence Owens Thompson symbolizes the courage of Americans as they tried to survive the hard times of the Great Depression.
	powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us /online/usonline/stamps/30s_stamps.htm (1020 words)

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