Image:Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936.jpg

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Location: Dallas, South Dakota

Date: May 13, 1936

Buried machinery in barn lot during the Dust Bowl, an agricultural, ecological, and economic disaster in the Great Plains region of North America.

Source: USDA photo by Sloan , Image Number: 00di0971

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