MODESTO, California (CNN) -- The photograph became an icon of
the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying
their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old
when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and
determination -- to her family. Katherine McIntosh holds the
photograph taken with her mother in 1936. "I wanted to make sure
I never lived like that again," says McIntosh, who turns 77 on
Saturday. "We all worked hard and we all had good jobs and we
all stayed with it. When we got a home, we stayed with it."
McIntosh is the girl to the left of her mother when you look at
the photograph. The picture is best known as "Migrant Mother," a
black-and-white photo taken in February or March 1936 by
Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson, then 32, and her
children. Lange was traveling through Nipomo, California, taking
photographs of migrant farm workers for the Resettlement
Administration. At the time, Thompson had seven children who
worked with her in the fields. S