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Floyd Burroughs, Sharecropper by Walker Evans ; silver print, 1936. Commissioned by the US Resettlement Administration.

Floyd Burroughs By Evans

Young boy covers his nose and mouth against brown sand in the Dust Bowl.

Boy in Dust Bowl

Men walk through a dust storm in Garden City, Kansas during the Dust Bowl. Agricultural damage caused by deep plowing, no crop rotation and lack of...

Men Caught in a Dust Storm During the Dust Bowl

Visalia, California. Women and kids in NM truck-had been out picking peaches for themselves. The people are called "Grapes of Wrath" families from...

Car Full Of Kids and Peaches On Road

Dust storm-West. One of the most evocative pictures showing havoc wrought by this catastrophy. Photograph by Rothstein, 1933.

Wagon Wheels Leaning Against Barbwire Fence

Barn on a farm in Kansas during the dustbowl era, surrounding by bleak terrain with several tractors parked in front of the barn, 1935. From the New...

Barn On A Farm In Kansas During Dustbowl

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

Dust Bowl Farm.

Field worker in Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. He has just made himself shoes out of that old tire by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated...

Veteran migrant agricultural worker and his family encamped on the Arkansas River, Wagoner County, Oklahoma By Russell Lee, 1903-1986, photographer...

Veteran migrant agricultural worker and his family encamped on the Arkansas River, Wagoner County, Oklahoma By Russell Lee, 1903-1986, photographer Date 19390101.

West Texas "family farm." On edge of the Dust Bowl. Artist Dorothea Lange.

West Texas "Family Farm

Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Along A California Highway

Eroded field. San Luis Obispo County, California. Artist Dorothea Lange.

Two female pedestrians on a near-deserted Michigan Avenue, each holding their heads down in protection against the blanket of dust, several miles...

Dust Storm Swarms Chicago, 1934

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida. Dated 1938.

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid.

Oklahoma Refugees from the Dust Bowl, Looking for Work on the Cotton Fields, Now Encamped Near Bakersfield, California, Dorothea Lange , California,...

Oklahoma Refugees from the Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl in America 1930 Collection

Dust Bowl in America 1930 Collection

Typical Teutonic Farm Wife and Child, Client for Resettlement, Mills, New Mexico, USA, Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration, May 1935.

Typical Teutonic Farm Wife and Child, Client for Resettlement, Mills, New Mexico, USA, Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration, May 1935

Dust Bowl Farmer Raising Fence to keep it from being Buried under Drifting Sand, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security...

Dust Bowl Farmer Raising Fence to keep it from being Buried under Drifting Sand, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration, April 1936

Migrant worker with his children living in a tent during the American Great Depression.

Migrant worker with his children living in a tent during the American Great Depression.

Drought refguees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border inspection service said...

Refugees of the Drought of the Dust Bowl

Dust Storm near Mills, New Mexico

Dust Storm near Mills, New Mexico

Sand piled up in front of outhouse on farm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains

Sand Duned Home on the Once Great Plains

Hispanic boy from Mexican border possibly southern Texas, USA during the Dust bowl era 1936.

Hispanic boy from Mexican border possibly southern Texas, USA during the Dust bowl era 1936.

Harold Warden, a retired farmer who farmed in Liberal, Kan., area during the Dust Bowl days, watches the fine top soil blow away as if sifts through...

Denver Post Archives

old wooden windmill - dust bowl stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Old Wooden Windmill

Migratory worker, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas 1942.

Migratory worker, 1942

Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, California by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1939.

Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp, 1939

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labour housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of adjoining grocery and...

Migratory labour housing during carrot harvest, 1939

Sand Dunes on Farm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA, Arthur Rothstein for Farm Security Administration , April 1936.

Sand Dunes on Farm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma

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 showing dust covering a farm in the American Midwest during the Dust Bowl year. Photographed by Russell Lord. Dated 1935.

Photograph showing dust covering a farm in the American Midwest during the Dust Bowl year

Photograph showing dust covering a farm land in the American Midwest during the Dust Bowl years. Photographed by Russell Lord. Dated 1935.

Photograph showing dust covering a farm land in the American Midwest during the Dust Bowl years

Dust buried farm during the height of the Dust Bowl years, Great Plains, USA 1935.

Dust buried farm during the height of the Dust Bowl years, Great Plains, USA

Farmer and his Two Sons During Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA by Arthur Rothstein, 1936.

Farmer Dust Bowl Farm Oklahoma

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.

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 from Abilene.

Migrant worker during the great depression by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1935.

Migrant worker during the great depression.

Highway City, California, near Fresno. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress...

Migratory workers, 1939.

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers. Family from Oklahoma settling in makeshift dwelling by Dorothea...

Settlements of lettuce workers.

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Shacks occupied by lettuce shed workers, many from Oklahoma by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1939.

Shacks occupied by lettuce shed workers.

Map of California showing proposed rural rehabilitation camps. Date Created/Published: [between 1935¾and 1937].

Map of California showing proposed rural rehabilitation camps.

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble, California by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1936.

Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble.

Migrant pea workers on the road. All their worldly possessions in car and trailer. California by Dorothea Lange 1895-1965, dated 1936.

Migrant pea workers on the road.

Shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois. Many residences in southern Illinois coal towns were built with money...

A shanty built of refuse in Illinois.

Migrant worker in camp, California By Dorothea Lange, 1895-1965 dated 1939,_Feb.

Migrant worker in camp.

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.

Farmer in Kansas during the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s attempts to work formerly fertile land buried in dust.

Farmer in the Dust Bowl

Two homesteaders leave a farmhouse after a dust storm. The Dust Bowl region suffered from dust storms after over planting the once fertile land.

Farmland After Dust Storm

Dust storm on a Resettlement Administration land use project in Mills, New Mexico. April 1935. | Location: Mills, New Mexico, USA.

Dust storm approaching Lubbock, Texas, in May 1939.

Texas Dust Storm

Farm in the dustbowl. Although others in the area have been abandoned, this farm is occupied. Near Dalhart, Texas. June 1938.

Man holds onto his hat as a sandstorm swirls around him, during the Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s.

Man in a Dust Storm

Migrant worker with his children living in a tent during the American Great Depression.

Migrant worker with his children living in a tent.

Lucille Burroughs by Walker Evans ; silver print, 1936. Commissioned by the US Resettlement Administration.

Lucille Burroughs By Evans

An abandoned farmhouse in Oklahoma sits amid piles of sand during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Abandoned Farmhouse

Displaced farm workers from Oklahoma, referred to as Okies, stop at Road Information on the Texas state border as they flee the Dust Bowl, Texas,...

Okies Fleeing Dust Bowl At Texas Border

Guyman, OK- Scene Picture shows an abandoned farmstead in the dust bowl.

Abandoned Farms During the Dust Bowl

Two Dust Bowl refugees walk along a highway towards Los Angeles. Passing by a billboard imploring them "Next Time Try the Train - Relax".

Not Going by Train

Okie Family driVen from their land by the Dustbowl prepare to eat in a transient camp in California.

Okies Reach California and give thanks.

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

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