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Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area. Oklahoma
A photo of an abandoned house in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl time period on the Library of Congress website.
Americas Own Refugees The Story Behind the Grapes of Wrath.
Image of Migrant laborers with baskets of peas waiting to be paid for their days labor.
Cotton pickers, Arkansas
Cotton pickers on the Alexander Plantation at 6:30 a.m., waiting for the workday to start
Farming
Young men deciding what to do with their futures and realizing that farming is a life-long sentence.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees. San Fernando, California
Photo of Oklahoma refugees packed up in San Fernando, CA
Oklahoman, refugee to California from depression, drought, and dust
Rear view of man, standing with another man, at entrance to open-air grocery store(?), Shafter, California.
On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl
A description of what the Dust Bowl was and why it was so harmful.
Small Farms, Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
An analysis of the 1930's Dust Bowl, severe drought, and solutions.