THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S “Brother can you spare a dime?”
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STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
DISINTEGRATES
Factories and mines close
Banks are worthless
Consumer buying comes to a standstill
1932 – AMERICAN DREAMS ARE SHATTERED
14 million Americans are jobless (almost 1/3 the workforce)
Banks foreclose on houses and farms
No food, no clothes, no jobs
Recycled lifestyle
Black SundayApril 14, 1935
24 hours of a blinding dust stormDreaded black-blizzard covers entire disaster areaDrought adds further devastation
THE VICTIMS OF THE DUST BOWL
ColoradoKansasOklahomaNew MexicoTexas
Devastation of their cropland
Respiratory health issues
Unsanitary living
Rampant crime
Debt-ridden families
DUST BOWL ORPHANS
Mass exodus to CaliforniaOpportunities in RussiaMigrant workers become source of cheap labor
RESOURCESAngelis, Therese. The Dust Bowl. Philadelphia: Chelsea House
Pub., c1989.Farris, John. The dust bowl. San Diego: Lucent Books, c1989.Goldston, Robert. The Great Depression: The United States in the
Thirties. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1968.Katz, William Loren. An album of the Great Depression. New York:
Franklin Watts, c1978.McArthur, Debra. The dust bowl and the Depression in American
history. Enslow, c2002.Shannon,David A., ed. The Great Depression. New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall,c1960.Shindo, Charles J. Dust bowl migrants in American imagination.
University of Kansas, c1997.The American Memory Collection.The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl.
SOURCE INFORMATION FOR SLIDES 1&2
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Slide #1: Son of farmer in dust bowl area. April, 1936 [photograph]Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Used by permission of the Library
ofCongress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540.Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photo-graphs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (b&w film copy ofnegative of print)cph3c30123
Slide #2: Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town. June, c1937 [photograph] Dorthea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of
theLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington,
DC20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI,1935-1945. Digital ID: (int. film)Fsa8b38645.
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Slide #3: Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area, Oklahoma. April,C1936. [photograph] Arthur Rothstein, photographer. Used by permission of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression toWorld War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID:(int. film)fsa8b38293.
Slide #4: Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound forOregon. March, 1937.[photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of the Library of Congress Prints and PhotographsDivision, Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa8b31789..
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Slide #5: Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. March, 1937.[photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC20540.Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II:Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID: (intermediaryroll film)fsa8b31760.
Slide #6: Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California.June, 1935. [photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer. Used byPermission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID:(intermediary roll film) fsa8b27316.
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Slide #7: Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on theedge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen. March, 1937. [photograph] Dorothea Lange, photographer.Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and PhotographsDivision Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa8b31762.
Slide #8: Migrant agricultural worker’s family. Seven childrenwithout food. March, 1935. [photograph] Dorothea Lange,photographer.Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and PhotographsDivision Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from the GreatDepression to World War II. Digital ID:(b&w copy scan)fsa8b29525
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Slide 9: Mother washing feet and cleaning up daughter’s inSharecropper’s shack. Southeast Missouri Farms. May, 1938.[photograph] Russell Lee, photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC20540. Source: America from the Great Depression to World War II:Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Digital ID:(b&w film copyof negative print) cph3c18449.
Slide 10: Construction worker with wife and neighbor’s child in tent home near Alexandria, Louisiana. Ten men, two women, and two children live here. December, 1940. [photograph] Marion Post Wolcott,Photographer. Used by permission of Library of Congress Prints andPhotographs Division Washington, DC 20540. Source: America from theGreat Depression to World War II. Digital ID: (int.roll film)fsa8c14455.