Photo of a dust storm in Tyrone, Okla., taken on April 14, 1935. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s sent more than a million residents of the area to California. Pinterest
“Watching a Dust Storm’s Approach,” as a black blizzard rolls in to Ulysses, Kansas, two women and a girl pose for a photograph before taking shelter. PinterestJack Rabbit Drives happened during the famine. Out of fear of the meager crops getting eaten, towns would get together and slaughter whole herds. io9.gizmodoChildren in dust masks ready to go to school. PBSThe Lincoln Memorial shrouded with dust, 1939. slightlywarpedOn the road with her family one month from South Dakota, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Dorothea LangeMigrant mother and her hungry child. Dorothea LangeMigrant father with his children sleeping on him. Dorothea LangeMigrants waiting for relief checks. California. February 1937. Dorothea LangeDust Bowl Boy- April 1936. Son of farmer in dust bowl area. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California. Dorotea Lang