Title

Dust storms affecting Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA, April 1936. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Dust storms affecting Cimarron County, Oklahoma, USA, April 1936. The Dust Bowl was a series of devastating dust storms that affected the prairies of the United States and Canada between 1930 and 1936. They were caused by a combination of the farming techniques used (particularly deep ploughing and the removal of grass that previously kept topsoil in place) and droughts, which caused the topsoil to turn to dust and blow away. Millions of acres of farmland became unusable and hundreds of thousands of people had to abandon their farms because of the dust storms and their subsequent inability to make ends meet. Oklahoma was one of the states that was hit the hardest.
Historica Graphica Collection

Date

1925

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D79_112

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,2Mb (1,3Mb) / 14,4in x 10,8in / 4330 x 3243 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather storm building buildings agriculture people male boy boys job man men walking farming erosion house family home father wind economics country fatherhood guy occupation farmer poor poverty location disaster century SHACK profession son catastrophe thirties concept recession dad natural disaster B&W misery Oklahoma prairie hardship MONOCHROME rambling United States of America United States Midwest black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century dust storm Great Depression American America USA TGN photograph Unknown Historica Graphica Collection dustbowl photograph