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Objectives: Section 3: Life in the New Deal Era What were the effects of the Dust Bowl? How did the New Deal agencies use photography to promote their goals? How effective was the New Deal in ending the Great Depression?

The Dust Bowl:1935-1940

Photo by Dorothea Lange Kern County, California. Children of young migratory parents. These children originally lived in Texas

Photo by Dorothea Lange This is a picture of destitute pea pickers in California. This woman is the mother of seven children, she has scavenged vegetables from California fields to feed herself and her family Photo by Dorothea Lange

Photo by Dorothea Lange Tulare County, California. Cheap auto camp housing for citrus workers

Photo by Dorothea Lange Kern County, California. A 17-year old boy working sacking potatoes after a mechanical potato digger went through a large potato ranch. Kern County planted 27,250 acres of potatoes.

Photo by Dorothea Lange Kern County, California. Children living in the camp with their parents. Rent at this camp is $2.75 plus electricity

Photo by Dorothea Lange On Highway 87 in Arizona, south of Chandler, Arizona. A grandmother and the sick baby of a migratory family that is camped in a trailer in an open field

Photo by Walker Evans A migratory family living in a trailer in an open field on Highway 87 in Arizona. No sanitation and no water. After the cotton picking season the family plans to look for work in the WPA.

Alabama miners’ houses near Birmingham, Alabama Photo by Walker Evans Alabama miners’ houses near Birmingham, Alabama

Photo by Irving Rusinow Abandoned house and field, Haskell County, Kansas.

Photo by Mary Bourke-White A sharecroppers house in Marion Junction, Alabama. The original caption for the photo quotes the sharecropper as saying, “No place to plant me a little garden when the white-boss says to plow the cotton right up to my front door.”

Music of the Dustbowl How does American songwriter Woody Guthrie capture the hardships of the dustbowl?

Effects of the Dust Bowl Section 3: Life in the New Deal Era Effects of the Dust Bowl Many farmers lost their land. Dust Bowl farmers migrated west in search of work harvesting crops. Migrants to the West Coast faced stiff competition for jobs. YouTube - The Great Dust Storms - a Ken Burns style video

Use of photography to promote New Deal goals Section 3: Life in the New Deal Era Use of photography to promote New Deal goals New Deal workers hoped that photographs of suffering Americans would arouse support for the New Deal relief programs. Photographs were used in government pamphlets. Photographs illustrating the work of the government were published in magazines.

How might the publication of these pictures encourage political support for the Depression in America? What do these pictures tell us 75 years later?

The New Deal’s effectiveness Section 3: Life in the New Deal Era The New Deal’s effectiveness Not completely effective in ending the Great Depression Saved lives of those facing starvation Avoided a revolution of desperate people Provided jobs and improved people’s sense of self-worth Helped modernize the South Broke down class barriers Brought electricity to rural areas Boosted family incomes so children could stay in school