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7 cze 2022 · The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions. Family walking on highway, five children.
Go through the photographs of the young photographer named Arthur Rothstein about the Dust Bowl in April 1936.
30 lis 2016 · These Dust Bowl pictures from the 1930s reveal both the vast scope and total despair of the worst ecological disaster in American history.
Dust Bowl Photographs. Click the photos for a high resolution copy. "Fleeing a dust storm". Farmer Arthur Coble and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimmaron County, Oklahoma. Arthur Rothstein, photographer, April, 1936. (Library of Congress)
25 sty 2017 · Migrant Mother, 1936. Dorothea Lange took this photograph in 1936, while employed by the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) program, formed during the Great Depression to raise awareness of and provide aid to impoverished farmers. In Nipomo, California, Lange came across Florence Owens Thompson and her children in a camp ...
24 kwi 2020 · Collected here are photos of undernourished and sick children, homeless families, desolate farms, and storms engulfing the land in dust. As blunt and shocking they may look to you today, imagine how much they astonished those Americans living at that time.
Welcome to the Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women in the Dust Bowl Oral History Project. Between 2000 and 2001 interviews were conducted with more than one hundred women individually and in groups who lived through the Dust Bowl, primarily in the seven western-most counties of Oklahoma, where the Dust Bowl hit the hardest.
