The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster

by Martin W. Sandler

Book Overview

The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster. More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land. FDR's army of photographers took to the roads to document this national crisis. Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form of storytelling-...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802795471
• ISBN13: 9780802795472
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9