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Dorothea Lange was one of a group of photographers hired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration to document the effects of the Great Depression in general and the Dustbowl in particular during the 1930s. He photos were published, especially in a spread in "Life" magazine to show the people of the US how bad things were in the Midwest and called attention to the plight of families who'd lost their farms and homes and were fleeing the Dustbowl for places like California in search of work.

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