Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" image was discussed in the program. Here's the LOC page about it -- and the other images she took at the time: Migrant Mother.

Here's an interesting Wikipedia page Florence Owens Thompson, the subject of the photo.

It's an iconic photo of the time, there's lots written about it.

[By the way, the fiddler on my first YouTube link to "Two Rivers" is indeed the fantastic Eden Macadam-Somers.]

I did miss the second episode of the show. The preview for it features the grasshopper plague. Episode 1 included the jackrabbit plague. What a time.

~ Becky in Long Beach