I can understand now why they thought it was the end of the world – sitting in the dark for hours, day after day – it’s hard to imagine
Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma drought farmers. “Nothing to do. These fellers,” said one of them, “are goin to stay right here till they dry up and die too.” Aug. 1936 photographer Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town June 1937 photographer Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town June 1937 photographer Dorothea Lange 
Kansas dust bowl farmer by photographer Arthur Rothstein March 1936
Liberal vicinity, Kansas. Soil blown by dust bowl winds piled up in large drifts on a farm photographer Arthur Rothstein 1937 – This looks like a desert scene rather than a farm
One of the pioneer women of the Oklahoma Panhandle dust bowl photographer Arthur Rothstein 1936 
Leveling hummocks in the dust bowl. Coldwater District, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas photographer Dorothea Lange 1938
Leveling hummocks in dust bowl, thirty miles north of Dalhart, Texas. Farmer: “Every dime I got is tied up right here. If I don’t get it out, I’ve got to drive off and leave it. Where would I go and what would I do? I know what the land did once for me, maybe it will do it again.” Son: “It would be better if the sod had never been broke. My father’s broke plenty of it. Could I get a job in California?” photographer Dorothea Lange 1938
Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma Arthur Rothstein 1936 
Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas. This farm is occupied. Others in this area have been abandoned June 1938 photographer Dorothea Lange
Dr. Tugwell and Chairman Cooke of the drought committee look at a nest of barbed wire in Texas dust bowl. President’s report 1936 photographer Arthur Rothstein
The key figure in the 1936 presidential campaign, the American farmer. Oklahoma Photographer Dorothea Lange
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