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    The document summarizes life during the Great Depression in the United States through a series of photographs with captions. Men walked or took buses for miles in search of work, living lonely and unstable lives on the road. Prolonged drought led to devastating dust storms in the Midwest that destroyed farmland, causing many families to migrate west seeking work. Unemployment was rampant, and families lived in squatter camps known as "Hoovervilles" due to inability to pay rent or mortgages. The period was one of widespread poverty and hardship.

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    The document summarizes life during the Great Depression in the United States through a series of photographs with captions. Men walked or took buses for miles in search of work, living lonely and unstable lives on the road. Prolonged drought led to devastating dust storms in the Midwest that destroyed farmland, causing many families to migrate west seeking work. Unemployment was rampant, and families lived in squatter camps known as "Hoovervilles" due to inability to pay rent or mortgages. The period was one of widespread poverty and hardship.

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    The document summarizes life during the Great Depression in the United States through a series of photographs with captions. Men walked or took buses for miles in search of work, living lonely and unstable lives on the road. Prolonged drought led to devastating dust storms in the Midwest that destroyed farmland, causing many families to migrate west seeking work. Unemployment was rampant, and families lived in squatter camps known as "Hoovervilles" due to inability to pay rent or mortgages. The period was one of widespread poverty and hardship.

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    The Great Depression

    By Alexander Mourad
    March 14, 1935

    Today I arrived at the ranch in the farming crops or plowing hay it’s boring
    Salinas Valley. I’ve had to walk for miles and miserable. I’ve been doing this for
    to get from town to town and spend so long that most of the time I even
    hours on buses. It’s been a long time forget what day it is. I’ve just made a
    since I’ve seen my family or friends. I’ve routine that it feels like i’ll be endlessly
    been on the road for ‘bout four years following. I’m just trying to work until
    with an end goal of getting here in enough I can make some money for a
    California. It’s been a really lonely house. I’ve been tellin’ myself this for
    journey tryin’ to get here. I’d make a years but it never ends up happening.
    friend then get kicked out for doin’ I’ve had my money stolen from me twice
    something stupid like getting onto a and I’ve gambled it away too many
    licked in a fight. I usually don’t have times to count. I have a long journey of
    many conversations with other people work ahead of me and hopefully I don’t
    because I don’t know if I can trust them. get kicked out of this ranch. I’m jus’
    It’s been an extremely tiring journey. I gonna keep to myself and be smart with
    need to wake up every day and five a.m my money.
    and just start working. Whether I’m
    The period of the Great Depression meant that the economic conditions in the USA
    were low, resulting in families living in squalor.

    Above: Camp of migrant workers near Harlingen, Texas


    Lee Russel, 1939
    Men walked for miles in search of their dream for work and a livelihood.

    Above:"Damned if we'll work for what they pay folks hereabouts."


    Carl Mydans, Crittenden County, Arkansas. May 1936.
    Drought had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the
    Dust Bowl.

    Above: A farmer and his sons walk in a dust storm in Oklahoma in 1936.
    Arthur Rothstein 1936, Oklahoma
    Many men considered the journey west for work to be their last chance.

    Above: “Migrant worker on California highway”


    Dorothea Lange, California, 1935
    Severe drought, in addition to decades of extensive farming without crop rotation
    or other techniques to prevent erosion, caused duststorms. The Period was called
    the “Dirty Thirties’.

    Above:A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas,


    1935, George E. Marsh
    After men searched alone for work, whole families migrated West, taking their all
    their possessions for a chance for survival.

    Above: “Oklahoma refugees reach San Fernando, California in their overloaded vehicle.”
    Dorothe Lange/FSA, 1935, San Fernando, California.
    America’s midwest was effectively destroyed by the dust storms of the 1930s,
    causing most of the farmland to be worthless.

    Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind erosion, 1937.
    USDA Photo, 1937
    “Many men who didn’t leave their families, struggled to support their them with
    unstable incomes.”

    Workers Alliance picketing for jobs; children holding signs, St. Paul.
    St. Paul Daily​ News, 1937
    Unemployment levels skyrocketed and many families in America's largest cities
    were unable to pay their mortgages or rent payments because of this many
    desperate families built squatter’s camps on public land, creating villages that were
    called ‘Hoovervilles’.

    Above: ​King County,1931,​ ​Seattle's Hooverville


    Many men were unemployed so they would take what they could get.

    Above:, “Men stand in line outside a depression soup kitchen”


    NARA, 1931.
    Bibliography:

    Crittenden County, Arkansas. Cotton Workers on the Road, Carrying All They
    Possess in the World.” ​The Library of Congress​,
    www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8b28726/​.

    The Dust Bowl of Oklahoma, ​America’s Library,


    www.americaslibrary.gov/es/ok/es_ok_dustbowl_1.html​.

    “Migrant Worker on California Highway.” ​The Library of Congress,​


    www.loc.gov/item/2017768863/​.

    “Camp of Migrant Workers near Harlingen, Texas.” ​The Library of Congress,​


    www.loc.gov/item/2017782324/​.

    “20 Vintage Photographs Captured Scenes of the Dust Bowl During the 1930s.”
    Vintage News Daily​, 23 Oct. 2017,
    vintagenewsdaily.com/20-vintage-photographs-captured-scenes-of-the-dust-bowl-d
    uring-the-1930s/.

    National Geographic Society. “The Grapes of Wrath.” ​National Geographic


    Society,​ 4 Apr. 2014, ​www.nationalgeographic.org/article/grapes-wrath/​.

    The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Dust Bowl.” ​Encyclopædia Britannica​,


    Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 3 Dec. 2019,
    www.britannica.com/place/Dust-Bowl​.

    “Workers Alliance Picketing for Jobs; Children Holding Signs, St. Paul.”
    mnhs.org, ​collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10666827.

    “Hooverville.” ​Hooverville - King County​,


    www.kingcounty.gov/depts/records-licensing/archives/exhibits/second-looks-1/sl-h
    ooverville.aspx​.
    “The Great Depression.” ​PBS,​ Public Broadcasting Service,
    www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dustbowl-great-depression/​.

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