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Once concentrated in New York, Pennsylvania, and other eastern states, the highly conservative and traditional Amish people, who eschew many modern conveniences such as electric power and gasoline automobiles, have steadily moved westward, looking for good farmland.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).

Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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