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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)
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 in Images: Storytelling in Pictures. Objective: Students will learn conditions of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression and will consider storytelling and persuasion in images.
Memories, observations, and unique perspectives are captured in Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women and the Dust Bowl Oral History Project from a time that few can still account for first hand.
24 kwi 2020 · At the time, photographers like Dorothea Lange began documenting American lives and struggles through the camera lens, capturing tragedies like Depression and Dust Bowl. Collected here are photos of undernourished and sick children, homeless families, desolate farms, and storms engulfing the land in dust.
30 lis 2016 · After viewing these haunting pictures of the Dust Bowl, have a look at photos that reveal the trauma experienced across America during the Great Depression as well as how life looked for the rich and powerful during this era.
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.
