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Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum

Disaster and Government Response: The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal #8043

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Date: February 1937
Location: Tracy (vicinity), California
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-T01-016453-E

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Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. “Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!”

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Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting. © 2015
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  • ISBN: 1-57680-905-6

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