Arkansas Natural Disasters – Object #5

Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russellville, Arkansas

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<p>This is a black and white photography of eight rows of corn, several feet high. They are dried out and no corn is growing on the stalk. The ground looks very dry.</p>

1936 photograph, field near Russellville

Questions:

What happened to this farmer’s crop?

How do you think this natural disaster affected the farmer? The community? The state?

Citations

Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russellville, Arkansas. Arkansas Arkansas. United States, 1936. Aug. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.