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TRANSCRIPT
SONGS “Black Jack Daisy”
Song recording Text only
“Why We Come to Californy”
Song recording (poem, actually) Text only
“Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad”
Song recording Text only
“Arizona”
Song recording Text only
“Sunny Cal”
Song recording Text only
Teaching with Primary Sources—MTSU
PRIMARY SOURCE SET: THE DUST BOWL
CONTENTS: 1 page of songs, 3 pages of images (4 pages total).
These primary sources were featured in a Webcast, “Teaching with American Folk Music,” which aired March 19, 2009. Click here for more information. For more Dust Bowl primary source sets, available from the Library of Congress’s Teacher’s Page, click here. Song recordings are available in three formats: RealAudio, MP3, and WAV. For more information on audio playback, click here.
Example of text only version. Click on “view text,” then “page image.” [Note: this image has been cropped.]
NOTES:
IMAGES (page 1 of 3)
Stavin' Chain playing guitar and singing the ballad "Batson," (fiddler also in shot), Lafayette, La. [1934]
Pete Steele and family, Hamilton, Ohio [1938]
Will Neal playing fiddle being recorded by Todd and Sonkin [1940]
Migrant camp, wide shot [no date]
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pipkin being recorded by C. Todd with 7 men and a little boy in the background [1941]
Dust storm. Baca County, Colorado [1936?]
Dust storm. Note heavy metal signs blown out by wind. Amarillo, Texas [1936]
Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma [1936]
Sand piled up in front of outhouse on farm. Ci-marron County, Oklahoma [1936]
Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma [1936]
Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas [1936]
Grasshoppers, Richland County, Montana [1939]
Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 be-tween Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees) between Bakersfield and Famoso, thirty-five miles, between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning [1936]
IMAGES (page 2 of 3)
Vernon Evans (with his family) of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana on Highway 10. Leaving grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington [1936]
Migrant drought refugee family stalled on an Arizona highway, between Yuma and Phoenix, on their way to California to work in the harvests [1937]
Housing for migratory cotton laborers near Casa Grande, Arizona [1937]
Pea picker's home. The condition of these people warrant resettlement camps for migrant agricultur-al workers. Nipomo, California [1936]
Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, Cali-fornia [1936] A.k.a., Migrant Mother
IMAGES (page 3 of 3)
Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley. California [1937]