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7 cze 2022 · Historically, the Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.
Go through the photographs of the young photographer named Arthur Rothstein about the Dust Bowl in April 1936.
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)
8 maj 2020 · Oklahoma dust bowl refugees reach San Fernando, California in their overloaded vehicle in this 1935 FSA photo by Lange. Migrants from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico pick...
The Dust Bowl. Beginning in 1934, states in the Great Plains were hit with severe drought, causing soil erosion and creating a series of massive dust storms. Combined with the financial crisis of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl uprooted thousands of small farmers, many of whom headed west in search of a better life.
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.
24 lip 2017 · Arthur Rothstein. Farmer walking in dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma circa 1936. Arthur Rothstein/Wikimedia Commons. Rothstein was the first staff photographer for the FSA. A New Yorker by...
