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A farmer inspects his tractor and wheat drill, almost submerged in dust near Garden City, Kansas in March 1935. He planned to wait before digging out. (AP Photo)

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People wore dust masks to protect themselves from the Kansas Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

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A photograph from the Kansas Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

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A photograph from the Kansas Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

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In this photograph, both male and female workers at a Wichita canning kitchen are canning meat that will eventually be distributed to relief clients suffering during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s. This program was supervised by the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC). Date: 1934

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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's steam powered locomotive, engine #3770. The 3736 Class, Northern type 4-8-4 was purchased from Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1937. The boiler pressure was 300 pounds, drivers 80", and the tractive effort was 66,000 pounds. Date: Between 1937 and 1945

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Clouds of dust roll over the northwest Kansas town of Zurich in the 1930s. The pictures are looking north across Highway 18. (photo courtesy of Marion Renner)

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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in western Kansas in 1935. ( courtesy of Alvena King)

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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in Garden City in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)

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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in Garden City in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)

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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in Garden City in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt speech 1932 in Topeka.

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The winning team in the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour, Walter Beech (left) and navigator Brice Goldsborough, pose before their Travel Air Model BW with a J-4 radial engine. The airplane carried sate-of-the-art Pioneer navigation instruments, but Walter also attributed their success to following "the old reliable iron compass" - railroad tracks.

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The United States needs “a revival of the spirit of William McKinley,” Gov. Alf M. Landon told a crowd which greeted him when his special train stopped at Canton on August 23, 1936, home and burial place of the former president. (AP Photo)

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A photograph from the Kansas Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

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Alf Landon

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This is one of the most iconic photos from the Dust Bowl and is included in a collection of photos from the Stafford County Historical Genealogical Society and Museum

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W.E. Allbright, farmer, shown plowing, as dust blew, in an effort to check soil erosion by wind, March 31, 1935, Hutchinson, Ks. He adopted the plan of Gov. Alf Landon, who advocated plowing list rows at intervals to catch the drifting earth. Gov. Landon obtained a promise of federal aid in the dust-stricken area. (AP Photo)

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A photograph from the Kansas dust bowl in the 1930s.

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Cattle in a Kansas dust storm in the 1930s.

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Dust storm blowing into Dodge City. The worst storm recorded was Black Sunday, April 15, 1935. Survivors talked of dust so thick it drifted like snow.

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Trainmen in western Kansas are hoping for relief from a dust storm which made operation of trains difficult. This picture shows a second engine trying to extricate one stalled in a dust drift, April 4, 1935, Dodge City, Ks. (AP Photo)

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Keeping the rails clear so trains could go through was one of the major tasks of rail road men in western Kansas during the dust storms. Here is a group sweeping the dust from the tracks, April, 13, 1935, Syracuse, Ks. (AP Photo)

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A forlorn figure, this cow forages for food in dust blown pastures, July 8, 1936, Ford County, Ks. A month of rainless days and soaring temperatures, which stood far above 100 degrees in many sectors of the drought area, have ruined pasturage and crops. The extreme dryness is graphically illustrated in this picture by the dust filling the air as breezes sweep over what was once pasturage. (AP Photo)

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