http://www.life.com/images/logo.png http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/23118/scenes-from-the-dust-bowl http://www.life.com/image/2665346 Florence Thompson, a migrant mother with three of her seven children at a farm workers' camp in Nipomo, California. ]]> 2665346 Sat, 01 Feb 1936 03:00:00 EST Florence Thompson, a migrant mother with three of her seven children at a farm workers' camp in Nipomo, California. ]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/3231462 March 1936: The mother of a migrant family holds a baby while a young girl stands behind her and rests her chin on her shoulder under a lean-to, Nipomo, California. (Photo by Dorothea Lange/FSA/Getty Images)]]> 3231462 Sun, 01 Mar 1936 03:00:00 EST March 1936: The mother of a migrant family holds a baby while a young girl stands behind her and rests her chin on her shoulder under a lean-to, Nipomo, California. (Photo by Dorothea Lange/FSA/Getty Images)]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/72385337 An Okie girl turned California migrant farm worker rises at 7 a.m. to pick cotton in 1936. She's one of 200,000 Dust Bowl refugees from the plains working in California.]]> 72385337 Wed, 01 Jan 1936 03:00:00 EST An Okie girl turned California migrant farm worker rises at 7 a.m. to pick cotton in 1936. She's one of 200,000 Dust Bowl refugees from the plains working in California.]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/50700805 These drought refugees from Abiline in 1935 are among the 2.5 million who leave the Dust Bowl plains. 200,000 of them resettle in California.]]> 50700805 Sat, 01 Aug 1936 04:00:00 EDT These drought refugees from Abiline in 1935 are among the 2.5 million who leave the Dust Bowl plains. 200,000 of them resettle in California.]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/72400213 Venus Barnett tries to raise vegetables in the garden of a family farm in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. This is her second planting. A windstorm blew the first seedlings away. ]]> 72400213 Thu, 01 Jan 1942 03:00:00 EST Venus Barnett tries to raise vegetables in the garden of a family farm in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. This is her second planting. A windstorm blew the first seedlings away. ]]> Alfred Eisenstaedt 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/72392462 Members of a gang of migrant laborers bending to a crop of lettuce in a posture they maintain all day long. ]]> 72392462 Tue, 01 Jan 1935 03:00:00 EST Members of a gang of migrant laborers bending to a crop of lettuce in a posture they maintain all day long. ]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/3397889 A Dust Bowl migrant shaves by a road in 1939.]]> 3397889 Wed, 01 Feb 1939 03:00:00 EST A Dust Bowl migrant shaves by a road in 1939.]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/81843352 A migrant mother with her daughter in the doorway of their trailer home near Weslaco, Texas, 1939.]]> 81843352 Wed, 01 Feb 1939 03:00:00 EST A migrant mother with her daughter in the doorway of their trailer home near Weslaco, Texas, 1939.]]> FPG 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/3430586 May 1935: Old agricultural machinery on land in Mills, New Mexico, which is part of a Resettlement Administration project. (Photo by Dorothea Lange/Library Of Congress/Getty Images)]]> 3430586 Wed, 01 May 1935 04:00:00 EDT May 1935: Old agricultural machinery on land in Mills, New Mexico, which is part of a Resettlement Administration project. (Photo by Dorothea Lange/Library Of Congress/Getty Images)]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/50650451 Four families of Texas Dust Bowl refugees -- three of the families related, with 15 children among them --set up an overnight camp on their way to California in 1937.]]> 50650451 Mon, 01 Mar 1937 03:00:00 EST Four families of Texas Dust Bowl refugees -- three of the families related, with 15 children among them --set up an overnight camp on their way to California in 1937.]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/72400207 UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Collapsed barn on farm in Dust Bowl. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)]]> 72400207 Thu, 01 Jan 1942 03:00:00 EST UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Collapsed barn on farm in Dust Bowl. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)]]> Alfred Eisenstaedt 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/3430565 A family in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma is forced to leave their home due to a serious drought in the region in 1938.]]> 3430565 Wed, 01 Jun 1938 04:00:00 EDT A family in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma is forced to leave their home due to a serious drought in the region in 1938.]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/72400223 By 1942, the rains have returned, ending the Dust Bowl, but the years of drought have taken a toll on Oklahoma farmer John Barnett and his family.]]> 72400223 Thu, 01 Jan 1942 03:00:00 EST By 1942, the rains have returned, ending the Dust Bowl, but the years of drought have taken a toll on Oklahoma farmer John Barnett and his family.]]> Alfred Eisenstaedt 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/81843323 Unemployed men wait outside the California State Employment Service office in Tulelake, California in 1939.]]> 81843323 Fri, 01 Sep 1939 04:00:00 EDT Unemployed men wait outside the California State Employment Service office in Tulelake, California in 1939.]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/2668515 Two migrants walk towards Los Angeles, California. ]]> 2668515 Mon, 01 Mar 1937 03:00:00 EST Two migrants walk towards Los Angeles, California. ]]> Dorothea Lange 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/3231656 The roof of a house, which has been buried by a dust drift from a Dust Bowl storm in Dallas, South Dakota in 1934.]]> 3231656 Mon, 01 Jan 1934 03:00:00 EST The roof of a house, which has been buried by a dust drift from a Dust Bowl storm in Dallas, South Dakota in 1934.]]> American Stock Archive 2010 gettyImages.com http://www.life.com/image/3231460 circa 1935: A young boy in overalls and striped cap wipes his nose on his hand with a wooden shack in the distance during the Dust Bowl, midwestern United States. (Photo by FSA/Getty Images)]]> 3231460 Tue, 01 Jan 1935 03:00:00 EST circa 1935: A young boy in overalls and striped cap wipes his nose on his hand with a wooden shack in the distance during the Dust Bowl, midwestern United States. (Photo by FSA/Getty Images)]]> FSA 2010 gettyImages.com