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To my Caedes friends thanks for all the PM's doing better but don't get out much. Started practicing colorization again was browsing The Library of Congress and found some very good pictures downloaden The Migrant Mother one of 5 images called The Pea Pickers. Very powerful images colorized it with some minor clean up so would like to share I claim no rights to the image other than had the privilege to work with a impressive piece of photography. As there are no known restrictions on the use I dare to post it. There are no known restrictions on the use of Lange's "Migrant Mother" images.No known restrictions on publication�means that the Library is unaware of any restrictions on the use of the image. Image: Destitute pea pickers in California. Image link B&W Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration. In 1960, Lange gave this account of the experience: I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. 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. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. (From:�Popular Photography, Feb. 1960). Reproduction number:�LC-USF34-9093-C (film negative) Caption:�"Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute." Location:�FSA/OWI - J355. (Also available on microfilm and microfiche: Microfilm LOT 344; Chadwyck-Healey Far West fiche�