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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.
24 lip 2017 · Rothstein was the first staff photographer for the FSA. A New Yorker by birth who had studied at Columbia university, he wanted to show the devastation of the Dust Bowl to people back east.
22 mar 2014 · To this day, the very term Okie conjures images of gaunt men, grim women and doomed children dressed in tattered clothes, traveling by foot or jalopy across a landscape that seems perpetually...
26 paź 2023 · The Dust Bowl was a period in the 1930s when the southern plains of the United States suffered from a severe drought, leading to intense dust storms. These dust storms, caused by strong...
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.
High winds stirred up the dry soil. This caused huge dust storms that ruined farmland. The affected region came to be known as the Dust Bowl. It included southeastern Colorado, western Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. Human mistakes made the drought worse.
