Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936.jpg

Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936

Reason: This is a very historic an iconic image (it's even included in the top tier United States article). It was nominated once before 6 months ago Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dallas South Dakota. However, that was the image taken from the online USDA site. I contacted them and obtained a high resolution image which I uploaded to the commons. For whatever reason, the thumbnail on the website (i.e. the image previously nominated) is sepia, and the one they sent me has been converted to greyscale. In addition to being a historic image of an unrecreatable natural disaster, the composition is very striking. Focus and contrast is adequate, cropping/framing is dynamic. The image clearly illustrates the severity of dust bowl conditions.
Articles this image appears in: South Dakota, Dust Bowl, Dallas, South Dakota, Great Depression in the United States, United States
Creator: "Sloan" for the USDA

Support as nominator — Andrew c 15:05, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good composition. I like how the car is almost completely buried. Shows the devastation pretty well. howcheng {chat} 19:13, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Significant milestone was made, though I would like the photo to be sharpened a bit. --Brand спойт 20:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kudos to Andrew c for taking the time to request a high-res copy. Like the gruesome whipped slave pic below, I've seen this pic many times in U.S. history textbooks. This pic is almost synonymous with the whole Dust Bowl ordeal. Very encyclopedic and of very high quality. Jumping cheese 20:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matt Deres 00:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great historic image, even though the sky is completely blown and you list South Dakota twice in the list of articles.--HereToHelp 02:14, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, if you have a stylesheet that doesn't turn the hyperlink underlines off (or if you hover over the links in monobook) you will see that the second SD is part of the title for the Dallas article. ;) Cheers! -Andrew c 02:44, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, very nice, very encyclopedic. Could be a little clearer, but... gren グレン 07:38, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cacophony 04:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support As Jumping cheese mentioned, this is yet another historically significant image, like the famous whipped slave picture. This photograph is to the Dust Bowl as Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother is to the Great Depression — it epitomizes the overwhelming nature of the climatic devastation caused by the drought and dust storms. It’s also a solid digitization of the original work; I don’t think that the sharpness is an issue at all, and the technical quality of the image is very high. As to HereToHelp’s contention that the sky is “completely blown”, well, this is a 71-year-old image, and I doubt that the (sepia) original looked any better due to the limitations of the equipment of the era (the digitization that failed previously definitely didn’t have a better-looking sky). But that’s just a guess on my part, of course — I can’t know for sure. Either way, this image certainly is iconic and encyclopedic with regards to the Dust Bowl, and I see no reason why it shouldn’t be featured. —BrOnXbOmBr21 • talk • contribs • 12:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support That's a very striking shot. I like it. vlad§inger ^tlk 17:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Great historical shot. utcursch | talk 08:53, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- As per supports above Booksworm ^{Sprechen-sie Koala?} 17:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936.jpg --Raven4x4x 05:31, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]