Search results
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.
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.
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...
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...
During the Great Depression songs provided a way for people to complain of lost jobs and impoverished circumstances. Perhaps the most famous of these is "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" by E. Y. Harberg, published in 1931. Songs could also be used to raise people's spirits and give them hope for better times.
