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This is a comprehensive photo gallery of images from the Dust Bowl. It shows in great detail and visualizes the hardships that farmers faced during the Great Depression as the weather prevented agriculture. The dust storms are very well documented in these photos.

I also found this article to be interesting. Most, if not all people, were affected by the Great Depression. This is one of the many iconic photographs of a family during the Great Depression. Katherine McIntosh was very young when the picture was taken of her family. It just shows that the Great Depression was not only a problem for adults--it affected everyone.

This site contains contains an array of information on design, art, and photography. As it relates to this class, I found the site to me helpful because it puts Evans work in the historical context of the Great Depression.

This pbs.org site focuses on the pbs television series "American Experience". This particular page deals with the Great Depression and goes into detail about the stock market crash which triggered the Depression. It is interesting to read how the "imbalance between the rich and poor" was a primary factor in the stock market crash and how the poor were by far the most affected by it. The piece also talks about how the government intially underestimated the crisis and it took the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to eventually bring about an end to the Depression.