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Summary
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: usf34batch1
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kansas
cherokee county
mining
nitrate negatives
lot 428
arthur rothstein
ultra high resolution
high resolution
1930s
farm security administration
united states history
great depression
dust bowl
1930 s
library of congress
Date
01/01/1936
Location
cherokee county
Source
Library of Congress
Link
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