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
Crop Devastated By Grasshoppers, 1931
Time Frame: 1931
Four individuals survey a field ravaged by grasshoppers. Swarming grasshoppers devoured crops leaving nothing behind. 1931
Image Courtesy of Carol Whiteis & Ruth Leibrand Personal Collections
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