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A postcard showing a western Kansas rabbit drive. Areas of the state suffered from an over abundance of rabbits which were destroying pastures. Pens were built and residents gathered to drive the rabbits through the fields into the pens where the…

Black and white photograph of children inside a car.

Flora Robertson's poem of why she migrated to California.

Reflects farm workers' struggle to unionize. Parody of "Roll out the Barrel."

ROLL OUT THE PICKETS

Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
Keep up the fight till we've won.
Associated Farmers
Will very soon…

Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"

Interviews about coming to California. Recorded at 33. S. C. Loop interviews Roy Turner.

Title and other information from record for item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series.
Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series.
LOT 0543 (Location of corresponding print).
Transfer; United States.…

Flora Robertson describes the conditions of living through the dust bowl which caused them to migrate West

A photo of an abandoned house in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl time period on the Library of Congress website.

Photo of Oklahoma refugees packed up in San Fernando, CA