Most experts consider the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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Explore 10 surprising facts about America's epic drought disaster—the Dust Bowl.
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What was **normal everyday life** like for people living 50, 100, or more years ago? Featuring old photos, scanned documents, articles, and...
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Dorothea Lange: Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico. Photograph for the Farm Security Administration, December 1935. From the FSA-OWI Collection at the Library of Congress More pictures by Dorothea Lange | More pictures from the FSA-OWI collection [PD] This picture is in the public domain.
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As the national conversation around climate change heats up, LIFE.com offers rare photos from Oklahoma at the tail-end of the Dust Bowl.
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The Dust Bowl era was a time of tremendous hardship for South Dakotans. Take a look at these photos of dust storms in South Dakota.
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Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic Dust Bowl 1930s photos & royalty-free pictures, taken by professional Getty Images photographers. Available in multiple sizes and formats to fit your needs.
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Stock image 4048-1286: Dust masks worn during the Dust Bowl, 1936
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Explore the artists and artworks of our time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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The project for the Historical Sew Fortnightly Challenge this time was “Peasants & Pioneers.” From the event page on Facebook: “As wonderful as making pretty, pretty princess …
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The Dirty Thirties as witnessed by people who were actually there.
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I am a huge fan of everything Americana. I consider anything iconic that has to do specifically with our country's history to be Americana, including the Dust Bowl. I wanted to try to convey the terror and loneliness one must have felt during that time. There is a place in the Oklahoma panhandle called "No Man's Land" that was hit the hardest by the dust storms during the decade long beating. It was quite literally buried in dirt on a daily basis, especially in the summer of '35. Tumblr…
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The Dust Bowl refers to the drought-stricken southern plains of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Hooker, OK in Texas County 1937
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On a single day, April 14, 1935, known to history as Black Sunday, more dirt was displaced in the air (around 300 million tons) during a massive dust storm than was moved to build the Panama Canal.
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dust bowl days. The day my dad turned 21 was the day the black cloud of the dust bowl hit the area of Texas he lived in. I can't imagine how this affected him and his family.
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