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Dust Bowl Images
Directions Select 4 photos to analyze. Fill in your chart. For the sourcing, include which letter slide the image came from. When you are done, go ahead and start reading the article linked on Google Classroom. Start with the one from Gale--copy and paste http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=&displayGroupName=Reference&docIndex=&source=DirectLinking&prodId=&mode=view&jsid=b6dd0698516ffbecf0547729b821032a&limiter=&display-query=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&windowstate=normal&currPage=&dviSelectedPage=&scanId=&query=&search_within_results=&p=UHIC%3AWHIC&catId=&u=oldt1017&displayGroups=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3425600021&activityType=BasicSearch&failOverType=&commentary=
A. “Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas” Arthur Rostein, 1936.
B Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or two at a time gave them enough for food and gas to continue. On this day, they were within a day's travel of their destination, Bakersfield, California. Their car had broken down en route and was abandoned Dorothea Lange, 1936
C. Map of California by the Rural Rehabilitation Division showing areas where different crops are grown, proposed location of initial camps for migrants, and routes of migration 1935?
D. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California Dorothea Lange, 1936
E. On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state near Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Seven children and eldest son's family. Father was a blacksmith in Paris, Arkansas. Son was a tenant farmer. "We're bound for Kingfisher (Oklahoma wheat) and Lubbock (Texas cotton). We're not trying to but we'll be in California yet. We're not going back to Arkansas; believe I can better myself" Dorothea Lange, 1938
F. Family who traveled by freight train. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley Dorothea Lange, 1939a