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ArticleThe Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Collecting Expedition - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 - Digital Collections The ethnographic collection created by Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin provides a glimpse of the everyday life and cultural expression of people living through a particularly difficult period of American history, the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. The motivation for the Todd/Sonkin expedition to document life in the FSA migrant camps of California arose from a combination of circumstances. Charles L. Todd ...
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Web PageOverview - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 - Collection Connections This resource for teachers provides information about the American Memory collection, Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941, and ideas to help students develop critical thinking skills through the use of primary sources from the Library of Congress
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PDFThe Dust Bowl - Teacher's Guide teacher’s guide primary source set The Dust Bowl In the 1930s, disaster struck the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States. In the heartland of the U.S., poor soil conservation practices and extreme weather conditions exacerbated the existing misery of the Great Depression and instigated the largest migration in American history. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998021539/PP/ Historical Background ...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
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Web PageDust Bowl During the Great Depression - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation The Dust Bowl, its causes and the impact on the people of the United States of America.
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Photo, Print, DrawingKansas "dust bowl" farmer 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Rothstein, Arthur
- Date: 1936
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Photo, Print, DrawingCimarron County, Oklahoma. April, 1936. Dust Bowl 44 photographic prints. | Photographs show Dust Bowl. Dust storm in progress. Farmer and children heading for shack, chickens seeking shelter. Houses, buildings, machinery half buried. Sand dunes on farms, in orchards, covering gardens, water holes, highway. Barn roof removed and used as windbreak. Abandoned farms. Pumping water from well to fields. Removing soil from highway.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea - Rothstein, Arthur - United States. Resettlement Administration
- Date: 1936
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BlogThe Dust Bowl: An Iconic Catastrophe Decades after the drought and depression of the 1930s ended, images of the Dust Bowl are still familiar to millions of people worldwide. These images, and the stories and songs that emerged at the same time, are powerful tools for exploring the history and legacy of this nation-changing disaster.
- Contributor: Wesson, Stephen
- Date: 2011-07-21
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Photo, Print, DrawingOklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1935
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ArticleSongs of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Migrants "I'm Going Down this Road Feeling Bad," is a traditional song that may date from an earlier period, but that expresses sentiments surely felt by displaced workers during the Great Depression. In this presentation there are versions sung by Warde Ford, who traveled to Wisconsin to California to find work with the CCC and by Dust Bowl migrants Ruth Huber and Lois Judd.
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Photo, Print, DrawingAbandoned farm in the dust bowl area. Oklahoma 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Rothstein, Arthur
- Date: 1936
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Photo, Print, DrawingAbandoned farm in the dust bowl area. Oklahoma 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Rothstein, Arthur
- Date: 1936
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Photo, Print, DrawingSon of farmer in dust bowl area. Cimarron County, Oklahoma 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Rothstein, Arthur
- Date: 1936
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Photo, Print, DrawingAdobe farmhouse of rehabilitation client. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Dust bowl 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Rothstein, Arthur
- Date: 1936
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Photo, Print, DrawingWater for farms on edge of "Dust Bowl" 1 photographic print. | Photograph shows people standing above dam looking down as water gushes from culverts into the Pecos River, spillway on the left.
- Date: 1938
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Photo, Print, DrawingSand drift along fence. Dust Bowl, north of Dalhart, Texas 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1938
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Photo, Print, DrawingMailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1938
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Photo, Print, DrawingMailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas 1 transparency : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1938
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Photo, Print, DrawingAlong the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1935
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Photo, Print, DrawingDust bowl refugees living in camps in California 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1936
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Photo, Print, DrawingHome of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingHome of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingWest Texas "family farm." On edge of the Dust Bowl 1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingDust bowl farmers of west Texas in town 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
- Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
- Date: 1937