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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.
Go through the photographs of the young photographer named Arthur Rothstein about the Dust Bowl in April 1936.
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...
26 paź 2023 · In the Dust Bowl era, severe dust storms, often called ‘black blizzards,’ relentlessly swept across the Great Plains, carrying topsoil from Texas and Oklahoma to the East Coast, even reaching...
26 sie 2014 · Florence Owens Thompson, a woman whose picture became the symbol of poverty during the Great Depression, was already on the West Coast and could’ve reported that the job market wasn’t any better there. Born in Oklahoma in 1903, Thompson’s family no longer lived on their Cherokee tribal lands after being evicted by the U.S. government.
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...
8 maj 2020 · Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photograph. Then in 1978, a woman named Florence Owens Thompson wrote a letter to the editor of the Modesto Bee newspaper. She was the mother in the...
