This blog is about 'The Dust Bowl Pictures' taken by Dorothea Lange. The Dust Bowl was a raging dust storm that took place in the 1930s'. It sometimes engulfed buildings, and even whole towns.The raging winds combined with the loose, dry soil, caused by the drought, created a terrible dust storm. These pictures show just how bad it really was.
Most of the crops were ruined because of the drought. The dry soil was swept up by the wind, that's how the Dust Bowl started. It just kept picking up more soil and getting bigger. People lines the cracks under doors, and the window sills with damp cloth in an attempt to keep some of the dust out.
There
was dust everywhere. In the houses, in the schools, in the clothes, and
even in the food. Nothing could keep the dust out, it always found some
way to sink into everything. Some people moved far away to escape the
dust, but those who couldn't afford it had to stay. I think it is very important that Dorothea Lange took these pictures. We can learn from them and maybe help provent another dust bowl from happening in the future. She is also a great photographer, her pictures really capture the destruction that the dust bowl left behind.
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