Early life

     Born on May 26, 1895 of german imigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey.  She was origionaly named Dorothea Margretta Nutzhorn at birth.  She dropped her middle name with her siblings and took her mothers maiden name after her father left when she was 12 years old. 

    Traumatic Insudences

          The first tramatic insudent was in 1902 when she got polio.  It weakend her right leg and and gave her a dropped foot, a dropped foot is when a person lacks the muscle to lift the front part of thier foot so they often drag the front part, and even though she did well for her dissability she always walked with a limp.  dorothea once said  "I was physically disabled, and no one who hasn't lived the life of a semi-cripple knows how much that means.  I think it perhaps was the most important thing that happened to me, and formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and humiliated me. All those things at once."

          Family

               Works Cited Page

    " Lange Dorothea" New World Encyclopedia.

Dorthea Lang and The Great Depression

Jessicas Page Dorothea Lange

Brandon Landry: Dorothea Lange