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WPA nurses conduct health check ups in nurseries while men construct roads and build dams in drought areas of the Great Plains.

Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in the United States. A Nursery school in the drought area. Works Progress Administration (WPA) nurses conduct a health checkup physical examination of children. Children seated on benches in the school. A nurse questions a little girl. They administer typhoid serum. A nurse takes a little boy’s temperature while another examines a boy's eyes and throat for signs of problems caused by dust. Farmers with horses and horse carts. They construct roads under the Works Administration Program (WPA). They employ horses and plows for road building to carry crops to market. They cut wide fire lanes in drought damaged farms to prevent the spread of Prairie fire. Construction of assorted small dams to capture rainwater. Men transport dirt and rocks in wheelbarrows, dig in the ground, and work with machinery and equipment. Larger dams are also built. Men at cleared land. They twist strengthening wires into place using pliers. Men wearing gloves and smoking pipes work at the dam site.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032595
Construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana and ponds and lakes built by WPA relief workers in the Great Plains.

Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in the United States. U.S. Army engineers and WPA (Works Progress Administration) relief workers construct the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Workers digging. Tunnels and spillways at the construction site. Heavy machinery and equipment. A worker on the tracks leading into a tunnel. The gigantic structure at the headwaters of the Missouri River. Ranchers with their cattle near ponds and lakes built by WPA labor. An old rancher on his horse with a dog alongside. Ranchers with horses as they drink from a pond. A rancher with his son and their dogs look on as cattle graze and bathe.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032596
Dust Bowl in Texas. Dust and sand everywhere. Cattle auctions

Views of life during the Dust Bowl. People removing dust and sand from their houses. Farmers shovel sand from around their homes and farm buildings. Livestock have nothing to graze. Crowd gathered as desperate farmers auction off their livestock.

Location: Texas USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032607
Dust Bowl of 1930s. Farmers abandoning their homes with their families

Lewis Thaddeus Nordyke, newspaperman and author, who lived through the Dust Bowl in Dalhart, Texas, recounts how some people "stayed and prayed" in hopes of rain, always looking forward to "next year." Views of drought stricken land and sand covered houses during dust bowl in Great Depression. Scenes of farmers packing up their families and abandoning their homes. Some wear handerchief masks over their faces to protect against dust. Families load belongings into the backs of towed carts and trucks, leaving their homes. (Between 1935 and 1939, 350 thousand people left their homes in the dust bowl. Many migrated west toward California.)

Location: Texas USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032608
American Farmers heading to California with their families, to escape the dust bowl and start life anew.

Narrator, Lewis Nordyke, recalls seeing farm families passing through Dalhart, Texas, on their way West, to escape the dust bowl and start anew in California. Farmers and their families traveling in trucks. They stop and make camp for the night. Two farmers in conversation. Woman feeding a baby. Woman drying clothes. Girl sleeping. Journey starts again, with trucks piled high with belongings driving on roads. A sign marked with 'Arizona Welcomes You' can be seen as they pass through the Inspection office. Entering California, a board marked 'Needles welcome You to California'. Farmers go through inspection process in California.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032609
The new American Airlines DC-3 "Flagship Illinois" passenger aircraft at Chicago's Midway Airport.

American Airlines DC-3 "Flagship Illinois" aircraft, with passengers disembarking at Chicago's Midway airport, as American Airlines introduces passenger flight service between New York and Chicago. At the door of the American Airlines airplane, men receive the people coming out of the airplane. A well dressed man comes out; then another man, and then a woman wearing a hat, who shakes hand with a man already present. Another well dressed man follows her, and also shakes hands with the man greeting outside. The tail number of the aircraft, NC16002, is seen briefly. The same segment is seen several times in the clip, with slightly different framing.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1936, June 26
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032815
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