Dust Storm in Elkhart, Kansas, 1937

Dust Storm in Elkhart, Kansas, 1937 captures a towering black blizzard rolling over the town's Main Street at the height of the Dust Bowl, its storefronts and parked automobiles dwarfed beneath an advancing wall of airborne soil. Elkhart, once proud to call itself the "Broomcorn Capital of the Nation," was one of many Great Plains communities left choking on dust through a decade of relentless drought and topsoil erosion.

Dust Storm in Elkhart, Kansas, 1937. Historic Dust Bowl Documentary Photography Canvas Print.