The popularity of photography increased greatly during the 1930s due to new technologies, such as the .35-millimeter camera. Famous photographer, like Dorothea Lange, sought new subjects. They found them in the victims of the Dust Bowl. Please, choose one of the following images. What do these images show you about life during the Dust Bowl? Migrant Mother (Dorothea Lange, 1936) Migrant Family Walking on Road (Dorothea Lange, 1938) STATION B: STARVATION The Great Depression worsened during The unemployed Hoover’s presidency (1929-1933). stood in bread lines for hours to receive free food or visited soup kitchens set up by private organizations, such as the YMCA. What do these images show you about life during the Great Depression? The starvation of the Great Depression did not end at city limits. Farmers felt the Great Depression in both their personal and business lives. on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, “Those families who had lived had eaten or starved on the produce of forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in. And they scampered about, looking for work; and the highways were streams of people, and the ditch banks were lines of people. . . . The great highways streamed with moving people. . . . And this was good, for wages went down and prices stayed up. The great owners were glad. . . . And wages went down and prices stayed up. And pretty soon now we'll have serfs again. . . . And the little farmers . . . lost their farms, and they were taken by the great owners, the banks, and the companies. . . . As time went on, there were fewer farms. The little farmers moved into town for a while and exhausted their credit, exhausted their friends, their relatives. And then they too were on the highways. And the roads were crowded with men ravenous for work, murderous for work. And the companies, the banks worked at their own doom and they did not know it. The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. . . .
The popularity of photography increased greatly during the 1930s due to new technologies, such as the .35-millimeter camera. Famous photographer, like Dorothea Lange, sought new subjects. They found them in the victims of the Dust Bowl. Please, choose one of the following images. What do these images show you about life during the Dust Bowl? Migrant Mother (Dorothea Lange, 1936) Migrant Family Walking on Road (Dorothea Lange, 1938) STATION B: STARVATION The Great Depression worsened during Hoover’s presidency (1929-1933). The unemployed stood in bread lines for hours to receive free food or visited soup kitchens set up by private organizations, such as the YMCA. What do these images show you about life during the Great Depression? The starvation of the Great Depression did not end at city limits. Farmers felt the Great Depression in both their personal and business lives. “Those families who had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, had eaten or starved on the produce of forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in. And they scampered about, looking for work; and the highways were streams of people, and the ditch banks were lines of people. . . . The great highways streamed with moving people. . . . And this was good, for wages went down and prices stayed up. The great owners were glad. . . . And wages went down and prices stayed up. And pretty soon now we'll have serfs again. . . . And the little farmers . . . lost their farms, and they were taken by the great owners, the banks, and the companies. . . . As time went on, there were fewer farms. The little farmers moved into town for a while and exhausted their credit, exhausted their friends, their relatives. And then they too were on the highways. And the roads were crowded with men ravenous for work, murderous for work. And the companies, the banks worked at their own doom and they did not know it. The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads. . . .