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The Dust Bowl
Photographers of the Dust Bowl
During the Great Depression FDR's administration sought to document the economic crisis. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA) was put in charge of the effort, which employed some of the country's most talented photographers.
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.