katherine mcintosh
The little girl hiding her face behind her mother in the Great Depression stamp in the Celebrate the Century series is Katherine McIntosh of Modesto, California, now age 67. [1]
Katherine McIntosh is the daughter of migrant mother in the Dorthea Lang photograph taken in 1936 during the depression near a pea field in Nipomo. [2]
Photographer Dorothea Lange told Mrs. Thompson the pictures could help the migrant workers, showing the government “what kind of plight these people were in,” says McIntosh. [1]
The family settled in Modesto after World War II. [...] A house fire Friday morning gutted her home at 2112 Carver Road in Modesto. [...] The grandson initially thought McIntosh was inside the home, prompt- ing fire crews to aggressively push into the house to conduct a search. [2]
The photo “represents the women of depression,” McIntosh says, but she and her family really weren’t there because of the Depression, but because her father suffered from asthma until his death. [1]
The flames were knocked down in eight minutes and the fire was under control in 20 minutes, Sasser said. [...] The 75-year-old Modestan gained national exposure as a 4-year-old leaning on her mother’s shoulder in the iconic Dorothea Lange photo “Migrant Mother” taken in 1936. [2]
“The pictures didn’t affect our lives, the lifestyle affected our lives,” says McIntosh. [1]
“I lost everything I had,” McIntosh said Friday — including a copy of the picture that made her mother famous 71 years ago. [2]
Unlike many Depression refugees, however, they were not fleeing Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl, like the migrants in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. [1]
McIntosh is the girl to the left of her mother, Florence Thompson, in the 1936 photo. [...] Her grandson was asleep in the home, but managed to get out without injury, according to Mo- desto Fire Department Battalion Chief Rich Sasser. [...] But I’m homeless now,” McIntosh said Friday. [2]
Sources:
[1] Depression Stamp (www.virtualstampclub.com/
[2] The Modesto Bee | Depression icon homeless again after seven decades (www.modbee.com/local/v-print/story/