To fight curtailment of aid for drought-stricken farmers. Washington, D.C., Dec. 30. At a joint Conference today 30 Senators and Representatives from drought stricken states decided to name a steering committee to ...

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. "The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can't seem to accomplish nothin' there. Two ...

President Hoover and Governors discuss drought relief. Governors from 10 states in the drought area and representatives of the Governors of two other commonwealths were in conference with President Hoover at the ...

Bankers and drought relief plans. Twelve drought-stricken states sent representatives, most of them well known bankers, to confer with President Hoover and his relief committee to discuss plans for extending financial aid ...

[Red Cross relief, drought of 1930-31: Typical drought family of nine in an Eastern Kentucky mountain county posed in front of house]

[Red Cross relief, drought of 1930-31: Typical African American family of 9, destitute because of the drought, posed in front of house]

[Red Cross relief, drought of 1930-31: Ozark drought area post office, Lost Corner, Ark.]

Garden products from Arkansas grown from Red Cross seed planted throughout drouth [i.e. drought] area in March

Drought area, Oklahoma. 1936-1938. Farm land and small towns show the effect of drought

Disaster Relief (Drought of 1930-31) - U.S.: Rev. Leslie Patterson, Disaster Relief Chairman of Pendleton County Chapter, American Red Cross, Franklin, W. Va. giving food to drought relief family

Auction. Farmer after farmer in the drought area is forced to see his few possessions to go on the block of the auctioneer as drought drives him from his homestead and makes ...

Drought cattle at the stockyards. These cattle are distinctly below average. Billings, Montana. Ranchers are unloading their herds before they get too thin. Grasshoppers have eaten up what little grass there was ...

Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees) between Bakersfield and Famoso, thirty-five miles, between 9:00 and ...

Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California

Urge $10,000,000 Red Cross Relief Fund. President Hoover, as President of the American Red Cross, joins Judge John Barton Payne, chairman, in a special call for a $10,000,000 popular subscription to the ...

INDIANS VISIT GREAT WHITE FATHER. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, SEATED, RECEIVES DRAGS WOLF, LEFT, AND FOOLISH BEAR, RIGHT; WHILE ARTHUR MANDAN, CHIEF OF THE TRIBAL COUNCIL, RIGHT; INTERPRETS FOR THE INDIANS. THE PURPOSE OF ...

Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17, 1936, ...

The Arkansas farmer, undismayed by last year's drought, prepares his ground for another crop

Texas drought

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