This photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange in February or March of 1936. The portrait’s subject, 32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson, told Lange that she and her children were living on frozen vegetables found in farm fields and birds killed by her children. To buy more food, she had just sold the tires from her car. Thompson, a Native American from Oklahoma, later came to feel that the photograph cast her into a helplessly immobile "Grapes of Wrath" stereotype, which she regretted. Thompson, a strong leader, became an activist and occasional organiser in the 1930s farm labour struggles. The design is available on a number of products at Grand Old Values under "Workers Are Worthy of Their Hire."