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A sign about two miles outside Bath, Maine. Although many of the tourist cabins were only used during the summer months, they are now, in many cases, being turned into winter houses for shipyard workers and their families
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A sign about two miles outside Bath, Maine. Although many of the tourist cabins were only used during the summer months, they are now, in many cases, being turned into winter houses for shipyard workers and their families
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Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1940
Contributors
Delano, Jack, photographer
Location
Bath
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43.91064, -69.82060
Source
Library of Congress
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Copyright info
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html