Disaster Collection (page 7)

A corral practically buried by drifted dust, Mills, New Mexico. 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A corral practically buried by drifted dust. Mills, New Mexico. Therefore, the fertile top soil of a grazing area cannot be utilized

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion, Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mills, New Mexico

Dust storm, New Mexico, Spring 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust, Mills, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico

Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years... Mills, New Mexico, 1935
Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years, leaving their heavy equipment in the fields. Mills, New Mexico

Refugees from the 1936 drought, came to California for a new start, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Refugees from the 1936 drought. Came to California for a new start. Now migratory agricultural workers

Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California

Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman in a California pea pickers camp, mending the tent

Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahomans, drought refugees in a southern California squatter's camp

Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Along a California highway, a dust bowl refugee bound for Oregon

Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. "Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see"

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Squatter camp on county road near Calipatria. Forty families from the dust bowl have been camped here for months on the edge of the pea fields. There has been no work because the crop was frozen

Drought refugees, camp along the roadside, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Camp along the roadside. Drought refugees. Imperial County, California

Drought refugees in California near Holtville, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in California near Holtville

Drought refugee from Oklahoma in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee from Oklahoma in California

Oklahoma drought refugee, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This is a hard way to serve the Lord. Oklahoma drought refugee, California

California migratory farm laborers, outskirts of Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
California migratory farm laborers, drought refugees from Oklahoma, camped in the brush on the river bottom with no water or sanitation. On the outskirts of Brawley. Imperial Valley, California

Early stage in the history of the farm experiment, Mineral King Ranch, Tulare County, CA, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Early stage in the history of the farm experiment on the old Mineral King Ranch. These old buildings in which the ten cooperating families now live will be replaced by modern separate homes

Mother and child of flood refugee family, near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mother and child of flood refugee family, near Memphis, Texas

Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma drought refugees stalled on highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

The last frontier, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no sanitation for the families who camp here during the potato harvesting season. When the season is over they move

Abandoned tenant house, Childress County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house. Childress County, Texas

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit)

Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted. Greene County, Georgia

Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest, Near Kiln, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. The tract extends for thirty-seven miles. A lumber industry owner did no replanting and cut out on 1931 after eighteen years of operations

Erosion, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Erosion. Greene County, Georgia

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

The Fourth Great Fire at San Francisco, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Fourth Great Fire at San Francisco, 1850. Fire in California, USA...the wind increased as rapidly as the flames, whirling the black masses of smoke, the lurid sheets of fire

Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California

Abandoned tenant house, seen across tractored cotton fields, Childress County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house, seen across tractored cotton fields. Childress County, Texas

Abandoned tenant home, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant home. Hall County, Texas

Scene of the Late Boiler Explosion, Lily-Lane Mill, Halifax, 1850. Creator: Smyth
Scene of the Late Boiler Explosion, Lily-Lane Mill, Halifax, [in Yorkshire], 1850. The boiler, with one huge lift, raised the whole of the four floors above it to a considerable height; when

Flood refugees four miles out of Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Flood refugees four miles out of Memphis, Texas

Abandoned house and land, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned house and land, Hall County, Texas. There were formerly twelve families employed on this land, now there are none

Drought refugee families...supplanting Mexican field laborers... Near Chandler, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugee families are now mingling with and supplanting Mexican field laborers in the Southwest. Near Chandler, Arizona

Drought refugee families... supplanting Mexican laborers in the Southwest, Chandler, Arizona, 1937
Drought refugee families are now mingling with and supplanting Mexican laborers in the Southwest. Chandler, Arizona

Abandoned farm, Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas

Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton, Nyland, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton in California, 1921. Nyland, California

Remains of Cockermouth Church, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Remains of Cockermouth Church, 1850. All Saints, an 18th-century church in Cumbria, was destroyed by fire. There appears to be no doubt that the conflagration originated in the tower end of

Cut-over land, part of stump ranch, California, Orick, Humboldt County, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cut-over land, part of stump ranch. California, Orick, Humboldt County

Scene of the Explosion of the Hounslow Powder-Mill, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the Explosion of the Hounslow [Gun]Powder-Mill, 1850. On Monday afternoon, a terrific explosion took place at the powder-mills of Messrs

The "Royal Adelaide", Steam-Ship, on her Passage from Cork to London, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The "Royal Adelaide", Steam-Ship, on her Passage from Cork to London, 1850. The Royal Adelaide was between 400 and 500 tons burthen, and had two engines of 140-horse power each

The Cyclorama - the Great Earthquake at Lisbon, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Cyclorama - the Great Earthquake at Lisbon, 1850. Display at the Colosseum in London: The approach and the effect of the earthquake [of 1755] are powerfully indicated; the subterranean roar;

Ruins of the Recent Fire at Ashwell, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ruins of the Recent Fire at Ashwell, [Hertfordshire], 1850. It having pleased the Almighty to permit the destruction of a very large portion of this parish by fire

Wreck of an Indiaman - from a Picture by Mr. Daniell, 1850. Creator: Whymper
Wreck of an Indiaman - from a Picture by Mr. Daniell, 1850. The scene of desolation which our great marine painter, the late Mr

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