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Young girls at a farm house or dilapidated plantation house in the southern United States.
Farm houses and former grand plantation houses, now in disrepair, seen among trees during time of poverty in Great Depression. A clothes line outside a house. Entrance to a house with large columns. Plaster and paint have peeled from the columns revealing the bricks. Young girls stand by a pillar at the entrance. Eroded land near an abandoned house.
Continued struggle after Dust Bowl: Winds blow away top soil; Desperate migrant farmers during Great Depression
U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary depicts how rural America used machines to achieve production at a terrible cost to the land and people including erosion and poverty. The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Top soil is blown away in a storm. Barren land. Soil washed into the Arkansas River. Layers of soil in the river. Wasted land and rivers due to sheet erosion. Soil destruction, barren land and farms. Texas: A town called "Go Forth" or "Goforth" founded by cotton farmers long ago. Abandoned houses, damaged roads, and unemployed desperate farmers are seen. Emaciated cows search for food. On the edge of the town, migrant landless farmers sit by a fire near a car. Rains and water erode the soil. A sign in a barren eroded patch reads 'Abernathy Furniture Co.'. The wind blows away the top soil.
A poor migrant farming family packs up their belongings and moves westward in the United States.
A poverty stricken migrant farming family lives in make shift shelters and tent camps during the Great Depression in the United States. A girl sleeps in a tent while a woman washes utensils nearby. A man and a young boy cook food on a stove. An unemployed family lives in a trailer. The man with his wife and children. The woman with her children. The man loads their belongings into a horse wagon. A young boy near his bicycle. Other farmers watch as the family gets on and they begin their journey westward.
A young boy and a woman from a poor farm family live in poverty and dilapidated shacks, United States.
Destitute children from poor migrant farm families play near dilapidated houses and tent communities and shacks during the Great Depression in America. A poverty stricken woman stitches and sews in a tent. A sick young boy moves his hands in his sleep as he thinks he's picking peas, while his mother watches over him at his bedside in a tent or shack.
African American and foreign migrant workers climb into trailers to pick cotton; a farmer operates an automated cotton picker
Wide views of cotton fields with hills in the background, in the United States. Tents in the field for migrant farm labor workers during the Great Depression. Automobiles and carts nearby. A truck with trailers attached halts on a road. African American and foreign migrants, (Mexican and/or Latin American, primarily) climb into the trailers. Men, women and children cotton pickers picking cotton by hand. A farmer operates an automated cotton picker in a cotton field, showing how automation is displacing hand labor for cotton picking. The picked cotton held in the machine.
Trees are felled to clear land during massive expansion of farming and a carrot harvester at work in the United States.
A man drives a bulldozer to fell trees during the Great Depression in America. A woman with children watches the logging operation. The bulldozer clears trees and rocks from the land. Trees are felled and uprooted to create more farm land (ultimately leading to overproduction of crops, drops in prices, and depression conditions for farmers). Boxes full of carrot in a truck. A carrot harvester picks carrots in a field. Men tie up the carrots together. Men and women workers stand and watch the machine at work. Workers seated on and around boxes of carrots. An African American worker lights a cigarette. An elderly migrant from the Cumberland Mountains. Expansive views of the Cumberland Mountains and a farm house on a mountain side. A house, horses, hens, ducks and a cow with her calf on the farm. A stern wheel paddle steamer steam ship or river boat moves up a river. Two workers operate machines at a grinding mill or grist mill with water wheel running. A man operates a horse wheel. Elevated views of a river flowing in a valley between mountains and nearby farmland. Tall grass in a field.
