THE ICONIC PHOTOS

These photos brought the attention to the nation and government the gravity of the crisis. President Rossevelt created the Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration to show the nation the economic crisis and what the government was doing about it. In a period of seven years, a group of talented photographers took 200,000 images of America in the 1930s, which included Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Walcott, John Vachon, and Dorothea Lange. . . Their boss, Roy Stryker gave them simple instructions: "I want to see their eyes, their faces; emotion. I want to cause sympathy in the public." This was the most comprehensive photographic record of any period of time in America history. Timothy Egan, and Donald Worster.
Credit: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/

John Vachon
Migrant man looking up at billboard.
Dubuque, Iowa. April 1940.

Dorothea Lange
Abandoned farm north of Dalhart, Texas. 1938.

Dorothea Lange
Migrant mother series. Woman with children in a tent.
Nipomo, California. 1936.

Dorothea Lange
A group of migrants waiting for relief checks outside of building.
Calipatria, California. February 1937.

Russell Lee
Farmer pouring feed into trough for pigs.
Baca County, Colorado. September 1939.

Russell Lee
Migrant man working on headlight of an auto.
Muskogee, Oklahoma. July 1939.

Arthur Rothstein
A young boy covers his mouth during a dust storm on farm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. April 1936.

Carl Mydans
Migrant man and woman walking along road.
Crittenden County, Arkansas. May 1936.

Credit for all pictures on page: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/