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South of Lamar, Colorado, a large dust cloud appears behind a truck traveling on highway 59, May 1936.

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Dust Bowl: Depression on the Way?

Photograph of dust clouds covering the Prairies, during the Great Depressions of America. Dated 1935.

Photograph of a dust storm. Conditions like these forced many farmers to abandon the area. New Mexico. Dated 1935 Photo by:

Farm machinery in Oklahoma is buried under piles of sand during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Farm Machinery Buried in Sand

Photograph of the winds of a dust bowl that have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas. Dated 1936.

Monster dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, on April 18 during the great Dust Bowl tragedy of the 1930s.

Aftermath of Dust Storm, Colorado, USA, Farm Security Administration, 1935.

Aftermath of Dust Storm, Colorado, USA, Farm Security Administration, 1935

Dust bowl farmstead in Dallam County, Texas, showing the desolation produced by the dust and wind on the countryside adding to the problems of the...

Farm about to be enveloped by a dust storm during the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Dust storm in Prowers County, Colorado.

Colorado Dust Storm

Secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson shields his face with his hat as he walks along a row of planted crops during a heavy drought season in...

View of buried machinery in a barn lot, in Dallas, South Dakota, May 1936.

Buried Machinery During Dust Bowl

Huge dark dust clouds swarm over houses in rural Colorado. | Location: Springfield, Colorado, USA.

Dust Storm in Springfield

Poverty-stricken migrant mother with three young children gazes off into the distance. This photograph, commissioned by the FSA, came to symbolize...

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange

View along a dirt road in Prowers County as a dust storm approaches, Colorado, March 1937. Reportedly, the storm, from the north, had a wind velocity...

Colorado Dust Storm

Dalhart, TX- Picture shows the dust bowl; an abandoned farm house in Texas.

Dust Bowl Farm in Texas

Dust Bowl refugee family between Dallas and Austin, TX.

Dust Bowl Refugee Family; Truck

Car full of 'Oakies,' refugees from the Dust Bowl, look for work in San Francisco, California. Some of their possessions are secured to the running...

The Ant Hill Mob

Three girls modelling various dustbowl masks to be worn in areas where the amount of dust in the air causes breathing difficulties, circa 1935.

Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas. This farm is occupied. Others in this area have been abandoned. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Farm in the dustbowl of Colorado.

Stand of vega grass eaten off close. In good seasons hay can be cut from areas like this. New Mexico. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Stand Of Vega Grass Eaten Off Close

Soil Drifting over Hog House, South Dakota, USA, Rosebud Photo, Farm Security Administration, 1935.

Soil Drifting over Hog House, South Dakota, USA, Rosebud Photo, Farm Security Administration, 1935

Large cloud of dust is visible on the horizon, past some midwestern farmhouses, during a dust storm, 1935.

Midwest Dust Storm

Cattle Turned Loose to Graze in Corn field already Ruined by Drought and Grasshopper Plague, near Carson, North Dakota, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm...

Cattle Turned Loose to Graze in Corn field already Ruined by Drought and Grasshopper Plague, near Carson, North Dakota, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration, July 1936

Photograph of a dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas. Dated 1935.

Dust storm approaching Stratford.

Farmer and his sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma by Arthur Rothstein , 1936. Published under the auspices of the US...

Dust Storm By Rothstein

Man walks past a farmhouse in a dust storm at the height of the Dust Bowl.

A Dust Storm in Oklahoma

Truckload of Dust Bowl refugees wait for a flat on their truck to be fixed. | Location: Weber Falls, Oklahoma, USA.

Dust Bowl Refugees

Farmer and his sons flee from an approaching dust storm in Oklahoma.

Dust Storm in Oklahoma

Housing for refugees of the Oklahoma dustbowl, California, 1936. From the New York Public Library. .

Housing For Refugees

Heavy Black Clouds of Dust Rising over Texas Panhandle, Texas, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration, March 1936.

Heavy Black Clouds of Dust Rising over Texas Panhandle, Texas, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration, March 1936

Postcard showing an approaching dust storm somewhere in the midwest, ca.1930s.

A Dust Storm Approaching

Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw...

Families of refugees during Great Depression, 1937

Migratory labour workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1939.

Migratory labour workers.

Sand drifts up to six feet deep form outside of a Beadle County, South Dakota farm. September 17, 1935.

Sand Drifts In Front of a South Dakota Farm

Loose soil, blown by dust bowl winds, piled up in front of an outhouse on a farm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936.

The automobile was often the only hope for the future to many families fleeing from the Dust Bowl in the Southwest during the depression years of the...

Family Packed In Car, On Way To The West

Negro intrastate migrant worker, Italian grower and his wife picking berries in field near Hammond, Louisiana By Russell Lee, 1903-1986, photographer...

Negro intrastate migrant worker, Italian grower and his wife picking berries Date 19390101.

View, from a one hundred foot tall water tower, of a massive dust storm as it approaches town, Rolla, Kansas, May 6, 1935.

Dust Storm In Kansas, 1935

Dust storm approaching the town of Elkhart in Kansas.

Dust storm in Elkhart, Kansas.

Kansas Dust Storm

Two men push a automobile stuck in sand on an unidentified road, Felt, Oklahoma, February 3, 1939.

Pushing A Car On A Sand-Covered Road

Photographic postcard shows a dust storm approaching a house, produced in 1935 in Fort Scott, Kansas.

''1935 Dust Bowl Storm'

Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California....

Families From The Dust Bowl In Texas In An Overnight Roadside Camp Near Calipatria

Camp of migratory workers in Arkansas River bottoms, Muskogee County, Oklahoma by Russell lee, 1903-1986, dated 1939.

Camp of migratory workers in Arkansas River bottoms.

Farmer working during the Black Blizzard Dust Storm during the severe drought across the dust bowl in America 1934.

Farmer working during the Black Blizzard Dust Storm during the severe drought across the dust bowl in America 1934

Drought Refugees, California, USA, Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration, February 1936.

Drought Refugees, California, USA, Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration, February 1936

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas but I...

Drought Refugees Migrate by car

Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned

Stock watering hole almost completely covered by shifting topsoil. Cimarron County, Oklahoma

Stock watering hole almost completely covered by shifting topsoil.

Dust Bowl in America, 1930.

Dust Bowl in America.

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California by Dorothea...

Migrant agricultural worker's family, 1936

Huge dust clouds loom over a street in Kansas, before a dust storm.

Dust Clouds Over Street

Wife and Children of Resettled Farmer, Jackson County, Alabama, USA, Arthur Rothstein for Farm Security Administration, September 1935.

Wife and Children of Resettled Farmer, Jackson County, Alabama

Photograph of a dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas. Dated 1935.

Photograph of a dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California by Dorothea...

Migrant agricultural worker's family.

Migrant worker in the American Great depression, 1939.

Migrant worker in the American Great depression.

Dust Storm in Texas Panhandle

Dust Storm in Texas Panhandle

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