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Dust Bowl

A collection of images covering the 1930's Dust Bowl, America's worst drought in history

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was an 8-year period of drought that devastated the American prairie lands encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, as well as neighboring territories of Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. The exploitation from dry-land farming from the agricultural wheat boom and cattle grazing, followed by a decade-long drought, caused the worst ecological disaster in American history. The catastrophe affected over one hundred million acres of land, with 75 percent of its top-soil blown away by the end of the 1930s, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to migrate from the middle of America to the west coast. This intensified the economic impact of the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt designed a program to restore the ecological balance. In 1933, the Soil Erosion Service was established, and in 1935 it was reorganized under the Department of Agriculture and renamed the Soil Conservation Service. Several relief programs were designed to help those going through economic challenges. A few of those programs were the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC), Drought Relief Service (DSR) and the Civilian Conservation Corps. By the fall of 1939, rain finally quenched the dry lands, bringing an end to the drought. During the next few years, with the start of World War II, the country was able to find its footing and pull its self out of the Depression.
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Dust Bowl

In the spring of 1937 Floyd S. Moon of Pratt, Kan., tends a young tree. The trees are Chinese Elm, with pine and cedars in foreground. Pine were planted in 37 and cedars at a later date. Moon cooperated with Soil Conservation service in combating ravages of storms in dust bowl area. (AP Photo)

Date : April 04, 1937 12:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl Tourism

FILE - In this April 15, 1935 file photo, a dust cloud approaches a ranch in Boise City, Okla. The Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, the geographic center of the 1930s Dust Bowl, are hoping for an uptick in tourism following a two-part television series about what many call the nation’s worst man-made disaster. PBS’ series on “The Dust Bowl” concluded Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo, File)

Date : April 13, 1935 12:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl Springfield Colorado 1935

Children cover their faces at the swirling dust storms while pumping water in Springfield, Colorado, March 25, 1935. Thousands of acres of wind-whipped eroded farmland turned the region into the Dust Bowl. (AP Photo)

Date : March 25, 1935 10:08:37 AM

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The Dust Bowl Kansas 1935

W.E. Allbright, farmer, shown plowing, as dust blew, in an effort to check soil erosion by wind, March 31, 1935, Hutchinson, Ks. He adopted the plan of Gov. Alf Landon, who advocated plowing list rows at intervals to catch the drifting earth. Gov. Landon obtained a promise of federal aid in the dust-stricken area. (AP Photo)

Date : March 31, 1935 03:00:00 AM

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The Dust Bowl Kansas 1936

A forlorn figure, this cow forages for food in dust blown pastures, July 8, 1936, Ford County, Ks. A month of rainless days and soaring temperatures, which stood far above 100 degrees in many sectors of the drought area, have ruined pasturage and crops. The extreme dryness is graphically illustrated in this picture by the dust filling the air as breezes sweep over what was once pasturage. (AP Photo)

Date : July 08, 1936 04:00:00 AM

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DUST BOWL FARMER

Mrs. J.L. Vance digs out mud from the farm watering tank that was home to dozens of gold fish before the dust storms near Garden City, Kan., on April 17, 1935. Drifts several feet high can be seen in the yard, in background, caused by strong winds that blew the soil into huge clouds in the Dust Bowl. (AP Photo)

Date : April 17, 1935 12:00:00 AM

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DUST BOWL MIGRANT TENT

An unidentified 80-year-old woman from Oklahoma, who is grandmother to 22 children, is photographed at a refugee camp set up for Dust Bowl migrants near Bakersfield, Ca. in 1937. (AP Photo)

Date : January 01, 1937 03:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl Refugees

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, this man is now broke and looking for work in California shown July 28, 1937. Like the bulk of the “Okies” that migrated from the dust bowl, he is honest and industrious. Thousands of the present down and outers operated prosperous farms before the drought ruined them. (AP Photo)

Date : July 28, 1937 12:00:00 AM

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Hoover Red Cross

President Herbert Hoover is shown with Judge John Barton Payne, left, chairman of the American Red Cross, as the chief executive stood in Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1931, and opened the annual meeting of Red Cross with praise of its refusal to take governmental aid in helping the drought sufferers. (AP Photo)

Date : April 13, 1931 04:00:00 AM

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The Dust Bowl Missouri 1936

Dairy cows shown near a dried up pond in the pasture on the farm of Ben Buhmeyer, where the drought has caused wide damage, July 31, 1936, Missouri. Crops are a total loss in 336 counties in the country as a result of the drought, according to a federal compilation. (AP Photo)

Date : July 13, 1936 04:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl 1937

Water rushed down a ditch in the Dust Bowl at Liberal, Kansas, Aug 15, 1937 as a well, part of a proposed extensive well-irrigation project, was opened at a dedication ceremony. Sponsors of the project hope irrigation by well water will be the salvation of the area. William H. Murray,kneeling, right, former governor of Oklahoma, gave the dedication address. (AP Photo)

Date : August 15, 1937 12:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl Families 1937

The first government "greener pastures" migration started April 24, 1937 from northeastern Colorado to southwestern Colorado irrigated lands. More than 100 families will be moved from "Dust Bowl" lands to the federal project. The Hill and Kovach families load household goods for the westward trek. (AP Photo)

Date : April 24, 1937 04:00:00 AM

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DUST BOWL MIGRANT CAMP

This is a general view of a makeshift tent dwelling built on wooden platforms in a camp for Dust Bowl migrants near Marysville, Ca., on May 18, 1937. (AP Photo)

Date : May 18, 1937 12:00:00 AM

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U.S. DUST BOWL MIGRATORY WORKER

An unidentified mother of five children from Oklahoma is shown on May 18, 1937 in California near Fresno where they now live as migratory farm workers as a result of the Dust Bowl. (AP Photo)

Date : May 18, 1937 04:00:00 AM

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The Dust Bowl Oklahoma 1944

This photo shows what a farmer accomplished after three good crops plus initial aid from the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, July 7, 1944 in Guymon, Oklahoma. (AP Photo)

Date : July 07, 1944 04:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl

Trees planted in a shelterbelt strip on the farm of Dr. H. Bungardt near Corbell, Okla., grew so rapidly within four years that he had to ask the forest service to thin them out. Here a forester is shown cutting out one of the trees, April 7, 1939. Many of the tress have grown to a height of 35 feet, stopping effectively the dust-eating prairee winds. (AP Photo)

Date : April 07, 1939 12:00:00 AM

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Syracuse Dust Storm

Scoop shovels and brooms were wielded in western Kansas to rid sidewalks of deposits of sand earth after dust storms in Syracuse, Kansas, April 13, 1935. ( AP Photo )

Date : April 13, 1935 12:00:00 AM

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The Dust Bowl Kansas 1935

Keeping the rails clear so trains could go through was one of the major tasks of rail road men in western Kansas during the dust storms. Here is a group sweeping the dust from the tracks, April, 13, 1935, Syracuse, Ks. (AP Photo)

Date : April 13, 1935 04:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl 1935

Trainmen in western Kansas are hoping for relief from dust storm which have made operation of trains difficult, April 4, 1935. Here, a second engine tries to extricate one stalled in a dust drift near Dodge City, Kansas. (AP Photo)

Date : April 04, 1935 12:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl

This field of growing broom corn, August 26, 1938 in Colorado, represents a victory by man over the forces of drought which, five years ago, had turned thousands of square miles of land into a desolate waste, the great dust bowl which threatened the agricultural resources of half a dozen states. (AP Photo)

Date : August 26, 1938 12:00:00 AM

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The Dust Bowl Kansas 1935

Trainmen in Western Kansas are hoping for relief from a dust storm which made operation of trains difficult. This picture shows a second engine trying to extricate one stalled in a dust drift, April 4, 1935, Dodge City, Ks. (AP Photo)

Date : April 04, 1935 03:00:00 AM

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The Dust Bowl Oklahoma 1938

H.A. Sohneider poses by a fence on his farm, Aug. 26, 1938, Boise City, Ok. He awaits a rain which will give him a crop this year, if it comes. He needs a crop since he has not had one since the drought of 1932. (AP Photo)

Date : August 26, 1938 04:00:00 AM

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Dust Bowl 1937

Desolation in this part of the Dust Bowl is graphically illustrated by these rippling dunes banked against a fence, farm home, barn and windmill in Guymon, Oklahoma, March 29, 1937. This property was abandoned by its owner when destructive dust clouds forced him to seek fortune elsewhere. (AP Photo)

Date : March 29, 1937 03:00:00 AM

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