The magnitude of the dust storms sweeping across southwest Kansas in the mid 1930s was truely unbelievable. In Ness City, Kansas, in 1935, Lillian Foster wrote:
"The idea of a dust scrap book occurred one evening when the 'very worst' storm swooped down upon us. Each storm seemed worse than any previous ones so I decided on newspaper stories and pictures to prove the seriousness of our famous 'black blizzards.'"
Lillian Foster's entire dust storm scrapbook is now available on Kansas Memory.