History thumb|left|upright|Late 19th-century photograph of Chumash chief Rafael Solares thumb|left|upright|Dorothea Lange's famed portrait, Migrant Mother, taken in Nipomo in 1936.
History thumb|left|upright|Late 19th-century photograph of Chumash chief Ra.fael Solares thumb|left|upright|Dorothea Lange's famed portrait, Migrant Mother, taken in Nipomo in 1936.