Walter Stiern Library

Dust Bowl Migration Archives (Sonoma State University)

This collection was developed and donated by SSU professor emeritus Gerald Haslam, documents the migration of dust bowl farm workers to California in the 1930s and 1940s. The project archives hold correspondence, stories, music, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs and camp diaries

Farm Security Administration--Office of War Information Collection

Images depicting the Great Depression created by U.S. government photographers.

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection

Online presentation of an ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of migrant work camps in Central California in 1940 and 1941.