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The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl. Oklahoma Father and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria , California.

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The Dust Bowl

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  1. The Dust Bowl

  2. Oklahoma Father and sons walking in the face of a dust storm.

  3. Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California.

  4. Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor.

  5. Home of a dust bowl refugee in Imperial County, California

  6. Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen.

  7. Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen.

  8. 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.

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