Assignment: First, scroll through all of the following slides and create a

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Assignment First, scroll through all of the
following slides and create a ½ page (each)
reflection on three of the following slides. One
of the slides is required, the fourth ½ page, and
it will be identified within the presentation.
USDA Land Use History Photographs

• For each reflection, identify the slide by the
  title located at the top of the slide and include
  the photographers name.

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Plowing Field 1941 Georgia
Jack Delano
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Italian Laborers 1941 New Jersey
Marion Post
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Picking String Beans 1939 Oklahoma
Russell Lee
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Hereford Cattle 1939 Iowa
Arthur Rothstein
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Mexican Immigrants Picking Carrots 1939 Texas
Russell Lee
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Migratory Farm Labor Camp- Crating Spinach 1942
Texas
Arthur Rothstein
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Woman working cotton- she was born 2 years before
slavery abolished- 1937 Mississippi
Dorothea Lange
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Tenant Farm Family 1936 Alabama
Dorothea Lange
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Mexican Sugar Beet Workers 1936 South Dakota
Arthur Rothstein
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Cultivating Sugar Cane 1941 Saint Croix Island,
Virgin Islands
Jack Delano
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Taos, New Mexico 1941 Llano Quemado
Rusinow
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Taos, New Mexico 1941
Rusinow
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Tobacco Cultivation- Puerto Rico 1941
Jack Delano
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Illinois 1940

• FSA rehabilitation borrower driving a tomato
  planter. His two little girls, sitting in the
  back, drop the plants into the ground and cover
  them up.

John Vachon
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Planting Corn Iowa 1940
John Vachon
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Assignment

• The following caption accompanied the next
  picture "Anyone who inspects one of these giant
  mechanized farms must realize that it foreshadows
  a fundamental change in American agriculture."
• Look at the following picture and then reflect in
  no fewer than five thoughtful sentences on what
  this means to our society.

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Young Cotton Growing in Mechanized Field 1938
Texas
Dorothea Lange
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Dust Storm-1935 New Mexico
Dorothea Lange

• What could have caused these epic dust storms?

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Town after a dust storm- 1936 Oklahoma
Arthur Rothstein
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An Industrial Scene 1937 Alabama
Arthur Rothstein