Dust Bowl Migrant Camps & Housing Map, Chandler AZ

Created for the exhibition "Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler", this wall map defines the numerous auto camps and temporary housing of many who came to the area to work the farms. Using Dorothea Lange photos and historic maps as a reference, this map helps define the nearly invisible past that was quickly built over as a major suburb of Phoenix. I incorporated icons and illustrations of the primary crops of the region: cotton and alfalfa, as well as 1920s-40s cars, trains and service stations.