1. Out of the Dust/ 1930’s Research
This is a presentation on the topics of: The Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, Bonnie and Clyde, Health/Disease, and Rag Music
By: Erynn Heggan

2. Dust Bowl
To meet the farmers’ needs for money, they had to expand their land and the land some of them had to use was sub marginal, or soil that has a poor amount of nutrients. When the farmers plowed this land, during the dry times of the season, it would blow into the wind. When the country went into the Great Depression, they had to plow more sub marginal land and that’s when the drought started, the wind kicks up, the “Black Blizzards” start coming! There were less crops and less money because banks shut down and people lost the money they were saving. A lot of people were bankrupt and lost their homes.

3. Dust Bowl (cont.)
On April 14, 1935, was some thing Dust Bowlers will NEVER forget! It was the day of Black Sunday. The worst Dust Storm to ever hit during the entire period of time! It would just envelope whole cities in darkness. It ruined everything!

4. The Great Depression
The Great Depression started almost when the Dust Bowl started and ended. It was when the Stock Markets crashed in October of banks were forced to close, people became bankrupt, and people lost their jobs and homes. Also, People often “road the rails” in search of a job to do for money. The Dust Bowl added more stress onto the people of the 1930s because it made the Great Depression worse.

5. Dust Bowl Pictures
People may be trying to go to California and are camping out here for a short while.
Dry, cracked, and ruined land caused by the drought.
A house that was ruined by the dust.

6. Dust Bowl Pictures (cont.)
Hardest hit by the dust.

7. Dust Bowl Pictures (cont.)
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A rising dust storm about to strike. It might be Black Sunday.
People are probably moving to California… out of the dust.
The locusts that came and ate Dad’s crops and Ma’s apple trees.
Another rising dust storm.

8. Dust Bowl Pictures (cont.)
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Another about a dust storm. It does not say the date.
A newspaper on one of the dust storms and it appears to be the day after black Sunday!

9. Great Depression Pictures
Children protesting about their parents loosing their jobs.
A mother on her own with two children to take care of.
A child and a father that lost their home and are on their own.

10. Great Depression Pictures(cont.)
The Santa Ana Register reports on the day the stocks crash and the Great Depression begins.
Mom and son in a tent because they cannot afford their house anymore.
Two children on their own without a Mother or Father, without a home.

11. Great Depression Pictures(cont.)
A family could only buy this tiny little house. It might not even have a second room for the kitchen or a bedroom.

12. Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met January 1930 at a friends house. When they met, they were immediately smitten. Ever since, parker joined Barrow and went on their crime sprees as they approached their gory deaths. They robbed banks and murdered people. They were always wanted, and they killed a couple of cops just to keep from getting caught. Finally, it was the end and Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and killed. These slaying people were finally no more in Bienville Parsh, Louisiana on May 23, The posse was lead by Frank Hamer a police officer. They were shot to death while driving.

13. Bonnie and Clyde Pictures
Bonnie and Clyde’s grave and it looks like someone put carnations? I wonder why.
The police found this picture of Bonnie and Clyde in their Missouri hideout.

14. Bonnie and Clyde Pictures(cont.)
The car that Bonnie and Clyde were killed in. They took at least 50 shots at the minimum because they didn’t want to take any risks of them coming out alive.
Bonnie and Clyde wanted sign but the reward was actually $1,000 in Grapevine, Texas.
This is when people got the impression that Bonnie smoked cigars.

15. Bonnie and Clyde Pictures(cont.)
This is Clyde Barrow’s Grave. The other grave must have been for tourists.
This is Bonnie Parker’s real grave. Like I said, the other grave might have been for the tourists because they wrote on the fake one. Maybe they built the fake so they could protect the real one.

16. Health/Diseases
The major disease during this period of time was Dust Pneumonia. It was caused by excessive exposure to dust. I would build up in your lungs and inflame the alveoli. Symptoms are: High fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and coughing. People who would have Dust Pneumonia would usually die from it. Dust Pneumonia stops the cilia from moving and does not allow the lungs to clear themselves.

17. Health/Diseases Pictures
This shows a normal alveoli and an infected alveoli by pneumonia.

18. Rag-time Music
Before it was sheet music for a piano, Rag-Time Music was dancing music. There are many different styles of Rag-Time:
Cakewalk
Characteristic march
Two step
Slow drag
Coon song
Rag time song
Folk ragtime
Classic Rag
And MANY more(there is a LOT)!

19. Rag-time Pictures One of the albums of Rag-time Music.
Based on the title of this album, this must have been one of the older forms of rag music.