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The Dust BowlMaryland State Archives
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The Dust BowlMaryland State Archives
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Materials compiled in this document can be used by educators to fulfill the following National History Standards for Grades 5-12:
Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
STANDARD 1: The causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society.
Standard 1B: The student understands how American life changed during the 1930s.
5-12: Explain the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl on American farm owners, tenants, and sharecroppers. [Analyze multiple causation]
DESCRIPTION: Film clip, dust storm during the 1930s.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1930s
SOURCE: From the website of the USDA/ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University.DESCRIPTION: Baca County, Colorado. April 14, 1935. Dust storm. Colorado.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: April 1935
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Prowers County, Colorado. Dust storm.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: April 1935
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: June 1935
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: November 1935
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Dust storm. Baca County, Colorado
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936?
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Soil blown by "dust bowl" winds piled up in large drifts near Liberal, Kansas
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Mar.
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Results of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1936 Apr.
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Buried farm machinery. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: April 1936
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Dust storm. Amarillo, Texas.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: April 1936
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: A possible solution to the dust problem is irrigation. This farmer is pumping water from a well to his parched fields. Cimarron County, Oklahoma
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: April 1936
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Farm machinery buried under sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: April 1936
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Dust storm. Elkhart, Kansas.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: May 21, 1937
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: March 1937
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: March 1937
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Window in kitchen of house, Williams County, North Dakota. During dust storms in this area, windows have to be stuffed in this manner
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: October 1937
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas. This farm is occupied. Others in this area have been abandoned
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: June 1938
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Mr. Bosley of the reorganization unit standing in a field of sudan grass on his farm in Baca County, Colorado. This grass is one of the best cover crops which can be grown in this region in order to bring it back from its present stricken stage due to dust storms.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1939
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Mr. and Mrs. Schoenfeldt pulling beets from their tile garden, Sheridan County, Kansas. Tile gardens are a part of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) program in the former dust bowl.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: August 1939
SOURCE: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDESCRIPTION: Interview with Mary Owsley, a farm worker who cleaned up after the dust storms in Oklahoma.
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1971
INTERVIEWER: Studs Terkle
NOTES: Real Audio is required to listen to this recording. The Real Audio Player can be downloaded for free at http://www.real.com.
SOURCE: Studs Terkle: Conversations with AmericaDESCRIPTION: `Black Sunday' recalls experience at dawning of Dust Bowl era
DATE CREATED/PUBLISHED: March 28, 2001
NOTES: Newspaper article includes account of Doris Crandall, who as a young child, witnessed the dust storm approaching the family farm on April 14, 1935.
SOURCE: Amarillo Globe News
Surviving the Dust Bowl. From American Experience.
Farming in the 1930s. From Wessels Living History Farm, York, Nebraska.
Drought in the Dust Bowl Years. From the National Drought Mitigation Center
The Plow that Broke the Plains. Produced by Pare Lorentz, 1936. A U.S. Government Short Film about the Dust Bowl. 30. min. / B&W. Windows Media Format (wmv), 46.7 Megabytes, 320x240. From the website of the USDA/ARS Wind Erosion Research Unit at Kansas State University.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
Resources on Incorporating Primary Sources and Historic Sites in Classroom Instruction
Surviving the Dust Bowl: Suggestions for the Classroom. From American Experience
Visions In the Dust: A Child's Perspective of the Dust Bowl
César E. Chávez and the Great Depression
The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl
Immigration/Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
Argersinger, Peter H. "The People's Past: Teaching American Rural History" The History Teacher, Vol. 10, No. 3. (May, 1977), pp. 403-424.
Lee, Jeffrey A. and Vatche P. Tchakerian. "Magnitude and Frequency of Blowing Dust on the Southern High Plains of the United States, 1947-1989" Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 85, No. 4. (Dec., 1995), pp. 684-693.
Low, Ann Marie. Dust Bowl Diary. University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Stallings, Frank L. Black Sunday: The Great Dust Storm of April 14, 1935
Visher, Stephen S. "Drouths and Floods in the United States" Economic Geography, Vol. 19, No. 1. (Jan., 1943), pp. 1-15.
Wunder, John R. Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience. University Press of Colorado, 1999.
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August 16, 2006