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		The Great Depression Primary Source Set
		Great Depression: Dr. Common-sense's great cure / Winsor McCay. [No work] / Blanche Mary Grambs. Harbor Hills Housing Project, 26607 Western Avenue, Lomita, Los Angeles, CA A cheerful Christmas carol A matter of horse sense / Lute Pease. Roosevelt Hotel sign, Seattle, Washington Above Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nevada Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dams 11-22, Upper Mississippi River, Dubuque, Dubuque, IA News note: Mr. Coolidge is spending his vacation at his old Vermont home Front of a typical house offering furnished rooms for rent, District of Columbia [Untitled] Home of tenant farmer. McIntosh County, Oklahoma Migrant family in car enroute to California. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma Family who have small goat dairy in front of their tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. They had moved into the tent to save rent and fuel money in town Old grocery store serving an agricultural community in the Arkansas River bottoms near Vian, Oklahoma [Untitled] Great Depressopm amd World War II, 1929 - 1945 The Migrant Experience Dust Bowl: Pinal County, Arizona. Sign. The name "Dust Bowl" is reminiscent of home to the agricultural laborers of this section, many of whom came from the Dust Bowl sections of Texas and Oklahoma Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat. (The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right. If you stay in the house and wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop. But I"ve seen only one year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something" Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see" Soil blown by "dust bowl" winds piled up in large drifts near Liberal, Kansas The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas One of the pioneer women of the Oklahoma Panhandle dust bowl Adobe farmhouse of rehabilitation client. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Dust bowl Son of farmer in dust bowl area. Cimarron County, Oklahoma Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma Abandoned farm in the dust bowl area. Oklahoma Dust bowl farmer with tractor and young son near Cland, New Mexico Water for farms on edge of "Dust Bowl" Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll" Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California Oklahoma dust bowl refugees. San Fernando, California Four families, three of them related with fifteen children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California 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 Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County 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 Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma Dr. Tugwell and farmer of dust bowl area in Texas Panhandle. President's report 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 Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California The Dust Bowl of Oklahoma from America's Story Trampling Out the Vintage: From Security Camps Provide the Imperial Valley Migrants With a Home and a Hope Collection: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black -and-White Negatives Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection Websites: American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl (PBS) Did dust storms make the Dust Bowl drought worse? American Experience: Riding the Rails (PBS) The Great Depression (History Channel) Books: Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s by Michael L. Cooper ~ ISBN-10: 0618154493 or ISBN-13: 978-0618154494 --- Ages 4-8 The Dust Bowl by David Booth ~ ISBN-10: 1550742957or ISBN-13: 978-1550742954 --- Ages 4-8 Life in the Dust Bowl by Sally Senzell Isaacs ~ ISBN-10: 1588104133 or ISBN-13: 978-1588104137 --- Ages 4-8 Potato: A Tale From The Great Depression by Kate Lied ~ ISBN-10: 0792269462 or ISBN-13: 978-0792269465 --- Ages 4-8 Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley ~ ISBN-10: 0517880946 or ISBN-13: 978-0517880944 --- Ages 9-12 Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedom ~ ISBN-10: 0547480350 or ISBN-13: 978-0547480350 --- Ages 9-12 The Great Depression (Cornerstone of Freedom: Second) by Elaine Landau ~ ISBN-10: 0516236229 or ISBN-13: 978-0516236223 --- Ages 9-12 The Dust Bowl (You Choose Books: An Interactive History Adventure) by Allison Lassieur ~ ISBN-10: 1429634553 or ISBN-13: 978-1429634557 ---Ages 9-12 Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 by Katelan Janke ~ ISBN-10: 0439215994 or ISBN-13: 978-0439215992 ---Ages 9-12 Hoping for Rain: The Dust Bowl Adventures of Patty and Earl Buckler by Kate Connell ~ ISBN-10: 0792269039 or ISBN-13: 978-0792269038 --- Ages 9-12 The Dirty Thirties: Documenting the Dust Bowl (America History Through Primary Sources) by Sean Stewart Price ~ ISBN-10: 1410924270 or ISBN-13: 978-1410924278 --- Ages 9-12 The Journal of C. J. Jackson, a Dust Bowl Migrant, Oklahoma to California, 1935 (My Name Is America) by William Durbin ~ ISBN-10: 0439153069 or ISBN-13: 978-0439153065 --- Ages 9-12 Rose's Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression by Marissa Moss ~ ISBN-10: 0152046054 or ISBN-13: 978-0152046057 --- Ages 9-12 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse ~ ISBN-10: 0590371258 or ISBN-13: 978-0590371254 --- Young Adult The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster by Martin W. Sandler ~ ISBN-10: 0802795471 or ISBN-13: 978-0802795472 --- Young Adult Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ~ ISBN-10: 0140177396 or ISBN-13: 978-0749717100 --- Young Adult The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck ~ ISBN-10: 0143039431 or ISBN-13: 978-0143039433 --- Young Adult Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years by Oliva Maria Rubio, Jack von Euw, and Sandra Phillips (authors) and Dorothea Lange (photographer) ~ ISBN-10: 8492498757 or ISBN-13: 978-8492498758 Videos: The Great Depression (2009) from the History Channel, A&E Studio, 200 minutes American Experience: The Crash of 1929 from PBS with Philip Bosco, Directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, 60 minutes America The Story of Us, Episode 9 Bust from History Channel, 45 minutes American Experience: The 1930s from PBS, 5 discs that include: The Crash of 1929, The Civilian Conservation Corps, Hoover Dam, Surviving the Dust Bowl, and Seabiscuit; 300 minutes
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