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This undated photograph captures a large dust storm about to hit this family's homestead. These storms were frequent occurrences in western Kansas during the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Date: Around 1935
This works with a variety of sources as a visual of how severe these dust storms could be; it can serve as a before picture to be compared with other visuals of the dust left behind by these storms.
KS:7th:5.1:Agriculture and the Dust Bowl (2005)
Item Number: 210642
Call Number: QC.9 Sto. D.1935c *12
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 210642
Agriculture - Environment - Weather - Storms - Dust
Built Environment - Function - Agriculture/Subsistence - Agricultural Outbuilding - Windmills
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Collections - Photograph
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930s to 1940s (Benchmark 5) - Agriculture and the Dust Bowl (Indicator 1) - Drought and dust storms
Date - 1930s
Environment - Weather - Storms - Dust
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Photographs
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