Dry, Dusty 1936
Dust-blown rural road
Farm foreclosure
Soil erosion
grasshopper devastated crop
Bank Closures
Iowa Farmers Strike
The Great Depression: Strike Turns Violent
The Great Depression: Stock Market Crash
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal Brings Relief
Agriculture Adjustment Act
FDR Promises a New Deal
Farm Foreclosure, ca. 1935
Time Frame: 1930s
A foreclosure sale in Iowa in the early 1930s when "the bottom fell out of everything." Military police were on hand to keep farmers from disrupting the auction. ca. 1935.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
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