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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.
Go through the photographs of the young photographer named Arthur Rothstein about the Dust Bowl in April 1936.
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.
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 · Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of a worried migrant mother is the single most iconic image of the Great Depression.
Dust Bowl is “a Ken Burns film” in what might by now be called the traditional sense—that is to say, a beautifully wrought, latitudinous, and, at the very least, aspirationally definitive work of filmic nonfiction, right at home among the documentarian’s prior oeuvre.
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.
