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Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be supplied by the Black Canyon irrigation project. Canyon County, Idaho. He has spent about three thousand dollars for buildings and is ready to start farming when, he hopes, he gets water in the fall of 1942

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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

01/01/1941
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
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Riverside (Canyon County, Idaho) ,  43.50194, -116.76667
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Library of Congress
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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

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