Dust Bowl and Migrant Life 1930s Great Depression

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Dust Bowl and Migrant Life 1930s Great Depression Background Images for John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Dust Storms

Dust Storms

Big Trip to California

Multiple Migrant Families on Route 66

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange (1936)

Migrant Agricultural Worker’s Family (Migrant Mother Collection) by Dorothea Lange (1936)

Bread Line by Dorothea Lange (1932)

Woman of the High Planes by Dorothea Lange

Yazoo Delta, Mississippi by Dorothea Lange (1938)

Missouri Family of Five, Seven Months from Drought Area by Dorothea Lange (1937)

Texas Tenant Farmer by Dorothea Lange (1935)

A “Hooverville” in Oakland, California (1937)

Migrant Workers Near Manteca, California by Dorothea Lange (1938)

Migrant Family Seeks Work in California Pea Farm (1935)

Migrant Workers (California) Fruit Picking

Migrant Workers Camp

Woody Guthrie Singer-Song Writer for the Working Class