Letters from the Dust Bowl
She wrote a letter to her friend describing her experience to her friend.
Who is Caroline Henderson?
This photographer traveled to camps and took pictures of Dust Bowl victims while working for the Resettlement Administration.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
Who is Woody Guthrie?
These type of storms were very common during the Dust Bowl, often causing visibility issues and destroying crops.
What is a dust storm?
Where the farm is located.
What is Oklahoma?
The Photographer had this disease which caused her to develop compassion for others struggling.
What is polio.
Listening to Western music, Native American songs, and Scottish folk tunes, he grew up to play this style of music becoming one of the most famous artists of this genre.
What is Folk Music?
Families would but these in the windows to prevent dust from coming in. (2 answers)
What are oiled cloths and wet sheets?
They put this in their noses to keep from breathing in dust.
What is Vaseline.
This became the most famous photograph of the Dust Bowl Era, depicting a worried woman and three children.
What is the Migrant Mother?
During the Great Depression, the musician had to leave text for this reason.
What is to find Work?
The decade when the Dust Bowl took place.
What is the 1930s?
This type of sawdust was mixed with oil to use in sweeping their floors.
What is Red Cedar sawdust?
This is the immediate effect after the photograph was published in the San Francisco News.
What is the government sent food to the camp?
He wrote songs about these groups of people, which is why they identified with his music and liked it. (2 answers)
What are workers and migrants?
Many farmers had to leave the Dust Bowl region to become this type of worker in California.
What is a migrant worker?
The reason (cause) the family decided to stay on the farm instead of leave the area.
What is it would be painful or a waste of time/hard work.
The most famous photograph of the Dust Bowl era was taken at this camp in Nipomo California.
What is the Pea Pickers Camp?
In 1940, he moved to New York and wrote this song, which became his most famous piece.
What is "This Land is Your Land"?
President Franklin Roosevelt created this program to help create jobs and help poor people. The WPA and RA are 2 administrations that came from this program.
What is The New Deal.