Over the air from border to border and coast to coast go the radio weather flashes. C.R. Comstock broadcasts." In: The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. Gravure Section. October 31, 1937.

"The barograph measures atmospheric pressure." In: The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. Gravure Section. October 31, 1937.

"Forecaster Mitchell dictates his findings." In: The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. Gravure Section. October 31, 1937.

"What's the temperature? Ask Victor P. Starr. He reads the thermograph and finds out to the fraction of a degree."

"Another wind-velocity instrument, this one atop the bureau." In: The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. Gravure Section. October 31, 1937.

The Block Island Weather Bureau Office. In 1974 a bed and breakfast.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Burlington, Vermont.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at St. Joseph, Missouri

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Lansing, Michigan. On the grounds of Michigan Agricultural College, today known as Michigan State University.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Anniston, Alabama.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building on Congdon Street, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Peoria, Illinois.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Sheridan, Wyoming.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Key West, Florida.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Richmond, Virginia.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Birmingham, Alabama.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Charles City, Iowa.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Dodge City, Kansas.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Iola, Kansas.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Block Island, Rhode Island.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Devils Lake, North Dakota.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Bentonville, Arkansas.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Columbia, South Carolina.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Canton, New York.

Postcard of the Post Office, Customs Office, and U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Apalachicola, Florida.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Bismarck, North Dakota.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Cape Henry, Virginia.

Postcard of the Mesa County Bank and Weather Bureau office at Grand Junction, Colorado.

Postcard of the United States Weather Bureau buildings and tavern at the summit of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau Building at Northfield, Vermont.

Postcard of the U.S. Weather Bureau kiosk at San Diego, California.

Alaska weather radio transmitter installation for Nenana. This was the 1,000th NOAA Weather Radio Transmitter installed.

Alaska weather radio transmitter installation for Nenana. This was the 1,000th NOAA Weather Radio Transmitter installed.

Dust and sand heaped up against fence windbreak. "Local drifting began almost imperceptibly and finally merged with regional blowing."Prior to the 1930's there had been a number of episodes of dust storms occurring in the Dust Bowl area. In: "Erosion and Its Control in Oklahoma Territory," Angus H. McDonald, Misc. Publication No. 301, Department of Agriculture. 1938. Figure 2. S21.A46.

A ranch house in South Dakota saved from burial by a wooden fence. Drifting material was primarily a relatively heavy clay, not sand. In: "Soil Blowing and Dust Storms," Charles E. Kellogg, Miscellaneous Publication No. 221, U.S. Department of Agriculture. March 1935.

Caption: "Dust Over Dakota." A forlorn farmer leans into a dust storm. In: "To Hold This Soil", Russell Lord, 1938. Miscellaneous Publication No. 321, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Caption: "A Blown-Out Field in South Dakota." A farm blown away during the Dust Bowl years. In: "To Hold This Soil", Russell Lord, 1938. Miscellaneous Publication No. 321, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Approaching dust storm in South Dakota. In: "Monthly Weather Review," February 1935, p. 54.

Approaching dust storm in South Dakota. In: "Monthly Weather Review," February 1935, p. 54.

Dust buried farms and equipment, killed livestock, and caused human death and misery during the height of the Dust Bowl years. In: "Monthly Weather Review," June 1936, p.196.

Dust buried farms and equipment, killed livestock, and caused human death and misery during the height of the Dust Bowl years. In: "Monthly Weather Review," June 1936, p.196.

Aerial view of the beginning of a dust storm over the prairie lands east of Denver. Northerly winds are removing topsoil and then the clouds of dust were raised as high as 16,000 feet by colliding southerly winds. Prevailing west winds then carried some of the dust as far east as the Atlantic coast. In: "Monthly Weather Review," June 1936, p. 197.

Sandstorm approaching Big Spring. This storm was a forerunner of the great dust storms of the Dust Bowl years. In: "Monthly Weather Rebiew," January 1931 , p. 30.

Caption: "Dust Over Texas." Huge boiling masses of dust that blocked out the sun were common sights in Texas during the Dust Bowl years. In: "To Hold This Soil", Russell Lord, 1938. Miscellaneous Publication No. 321, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The remains of a cornfield after grasshoppers had completed the destruction begun by drought. 90% of crops surviving the drought were destroyed by grasshoppers in an 11,000 square mile area. In: "The Drought of 1931-1932 in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Washington," The American Red Cross, 1932.

An approaching dust storm somewhere in Kansas, 1935. In: "Effect of Dust Storms on Health," U. S. Public Health Service, Reprint No,. 1707 from the Public Health Reports, Vol. 50, no. 40, October 4, 1935.