Arthur Rothstein. |
The Dust Bowl |
Featuring Documentary Photographs from the Farm Security Administration file and Companion Photographs taken in the late 1970s by Bill Ganzel Texts adapted from oral history interviews with Dust Bowl Survivors Abridged from a major exhibition, Of Dust Bowl Descent, organized by Bill Ganzel Reorganized by Texas Humanities Resource Center in collaboration with the Nebraska Council for the Humanities Financial support by the Texas Council for the Humanities Striking in the heart of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl blasted the hope and hard work of people in the Great Plains. It remains a common denominator of experience for senior residents of these states, not only farmers, whose livelihood was driven before the winds, but also town folk, sometimes hundreds of miles away, where dark skies rained dirt and deposited grit into food served at table. More than half a century has passed, and it is not easy for later generations to understand how profoundly this experience affected those who lived through it. Documentary photographs offer one way to apprehend this era, while modern photographs and interviews with the same subjects provide glimpses of how the Dust Bowl redirected human lives. This exhibit tells the story of Dust Bowl as remembered by survivors. |
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