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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Dust Bowl Migration

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Title: Home of Oklahoma drought refugees, February, 1936.
Creator/Contributor: Lange, Dorothea
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

These images show the devastation that drove the Dust Bowl refugees to leave their homes and migrate to California. They also depict the lives of these families on the road west.

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