Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced the nation's sentiment about the suffering of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange's work brought public attention to the plight of the poor and forgotten – particularly sharecroppers, displaced farming families, and migrant workers. Distributed free of charge in newspapers across the country, his images became icons of the era. Lange's best-known picture is called "Migrant Mother". During her travels, Lange came across a migrant camp where Florence Thompson and her family stopped to look for day work. Thompson was sitting on the side of the road with five of her children. The family car had broken down while they were picking salads, her husband had taken the two oldest boys with him to get the radiator repaired in town. It turns out they left Thompson and the other children next to a migrant camp housing at least 2,500 workers. Lange convinced a reluctant Florence Thompson to sit for six photos, including the migrant mother. She left after only asking Thompson's age and how many children she had in her family. Lange returned home, spoke to the editor of a San Francisco newspaper about conditions in the camp, and provided him with two of her photos. THE