Ohio River flood of 1937
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The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, 385 people died, one million people were left homel
Downtown Huntington, West Virginia, during the Great Flood of 1937
Members of a refugee family left homeless by the flood in Shawneetown, Illinois
Louisville's Central Station, flooded
An upturned farmhouse in Posey County, Indiana
Dust Bowl
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of
Ohio River flood of 1937
…resources were strained to aid recovery because the disaster occurred during the depths of the Great Depression and a few years after the beginning of the Dust Bowl. January 5: Water levels began to rise…
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936
A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935.
A dust storm; Spearman, Texas, April 14, 1935
Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas, c. 1936