Image Annotation: The Dust Bowl

The image above shows the state of the farms throughout the Middle West area of the United States, after the crops had dried up and became a product similar to dust (Fanslow, 1998). Farmers packed up their belongings, their families, and their entire lives to travel across the country in search of a better work opportunity and a higher quality of life. This provides a visual for the initial push of travel in the 1930s, and a beginning point of my exploration of this topic.