The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster

by Martin W. Sandler

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The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster. More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land. FDR's army of photographers took to the roads to document this national crisis. Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form of storytelling-...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0802795471

ISBN13:9780802795472

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books

Length:96 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 10.2" x 10.3"

Age Range:10 to 14 years

Grade Range:Grades 5 to 9

Related Subjects

19th Century Arts, Music & Photography Children's Children's Books Growing Up & Facts of Life Homelessness & Poverty Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Photography

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