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The Dust Bowl's Worst Day: Black Sunday, Rolla, Kansas, April 14, 1935 Map of the United States with the historic Dust Bowl region highlighted in orange, centered over parts of the southern Plains, including sections of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado. The map serves as a locator, showing the Dust Bowl area in relation to the rest of the country. American Progress, chromolithograph print, c. 1873 World War I poster showing soldiers charging over a snowy hill with rifles, above large red text reading They are giving all - Will you send them wheat? U.S. Food Administration. Dust Bowl era: Oklahoma, 1937 A massive dust storm approaches a small town street in Alma, Nebraska, March 1935; dark clouds loom over buildings and people walking near a storefront. Black Sunday: Kansas A massive dust storm looms over a row of houses and a farmhouse on the edge of Stratford, Texas, with people visible in the foreground, April 1935. Black Sunday: Colorado Massive dust storm engulfs the landscape near Beaver, Oklahoma, on April 14, 1935, with a dirt road leading toward a dark, towering cloud of dust.
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The Dust Bowl's Worst Day: Black Sunday, Rolla, Kansas, April 14, 1935
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Dust Bowl
The U.S. states most drastically affected by the Dust Bowl were Kansas, Oklahoma,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
American Progress, chromolithograph print, c. 1873
American Progress, chromolithograph print, c. 1873, after an 1872 painting...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital id: ppmsca 09855)
World War I poster: They are giving all—will you send them wheat?
U.S. Food Administration poster encouraging the production of wheat for the war effort,...
Harvey Dunn/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2002709049)
Dust Bowl era: Oklahoma, 1937
Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind...
USDA Photo
Dust storm: Alma, Nebraska, March 15, 1935
Black clouds of dust billowing through the town of Alma, Nebraska, March 15, 1935.
Nebraska State Historical Society, Federal Emergency Relief Administration Photograph (RG4290.PH0-002973)
Black Sunday: Kansas
Dust storm rolling over the town of Rolla, Kansas, April 14, 1935.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Black Sunday: Texas
Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, April 14, 1935.
George E. Marsh Album/NOAA
Black Sunday: Colorado
Billowing clouds of dust rolling into Springfield, Colorado, April 14, 1935.
OWI/FSA/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; photograph, D.L. Kernodle (LC-DIG-fsa-8b26998)
Black Sunday: Oklahoma
A giant dust storm descending upon Beaver, Oklahoma, April 14, 1935. The total blackness...
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (195354)
Black Sunday: New Mexico
Farmer standing amid a swirling dust storm, New Mexico, April 1935.
© Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com
Dust storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma
Farmer and sons fleeing a dust storm, photograph by Arthur Rothstein, Cimarron County,...
Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsc-00241)
Migrating family
Migrating “Okies” from Missouri traveling along U.S. Highway 99, photograph by Dorothea...
Dorothea Lange—Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USF34-T01-016453-E)
Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936;...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-DIG-fsa-8b29516)
USDA poster from the Dust Bowl era
U.S. Department of Agriculture poster from the Dust Bowl era, urging farmers on the...
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Dust Bowl: windbreaks
A swath of three-year-old trees forming a windbreak (also known as a shelterbelt),...
AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
Major present-day and historical droughts
Infographic depicting the locations of significant present-day droughts and some...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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