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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 #8044

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Date: May 1937
Location: U.S. Route 70, Arizona
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF34-016718-E

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Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico.

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

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