Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Malcolm Bissell and Arthur Tieje, in suits and ties, standing at large relief map of the United States mounted on wall, Tieje pointing with right hand at the southeast corner of Colorado This photograph appears with the article “Geologists Picture Midwest as Sahara, New Desert Foreseen in Dust-Swept Area,” Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 1935: 2. The article states: The theory that another great American desert is in the process of formation in the drought-stricken, wind-swept section of the Midwest was advanced yesterday … Their prediction is based on the dry years experienced in the Midwest since 1930, the drought and intense heat of 1934, and the current dust storms which have swept over Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, and Iowa. … Handwritten at edge of negative: Dr. Malcom Bissell, Dr. Arthur Tieje Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Bissell, Malcolm Dr. & Dr. Arthur Tieje Text from newspaper caption: Dr. Macolm [sic] Bissell, left, and Dr. Arthur Tieje, University of Southern California geologists, who believe a great American desert is in the process of formation in the dust-swept area of the Midwest. They predict the affected States some day will become a vast unvegetated plain.
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Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
1019 uclamss_1429_1019 ark:/21198/zz002dbd8g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Geologists--California--Los Angeles University of Southern California Tieje, Arthur Jerrold, 1889- Bissell, Malcolm H
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