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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 12 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 12 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 12 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates at about half the cost of electricity. Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties, California

Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. Tulare County, California

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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

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california tulare county irrigation nitrate negatives plant gas engine gas engine cost electricity tulare butane tanks source power farms farm security administration rural rehabilitation program farm security administration rural rehabilitation program kern san luis obispo san luis obispo santa barbara counties great depression photographs great depression american farmers worker industrial history library of congress santa barbara
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01/01/1938
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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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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Salinas River Project, Cuesta Tunnel, Southeast of U.S. 101, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, CA

William G. Dana House, Guadalupe Road, Nipomo, San Luis Obispo County, CA

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Children in nursery. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Children playing in nursery. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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california tulare county irrigation nitrate negatives plant gas engine gas engine cost electricity tulare butane tanks source power farms farm security administration rural rehabilitation program farm security administration rural rehabilitation program kern san luis obispo san luis obispo santa barbara counties great depression photographs great depression american farmers worker industrial history library of congress santa barbara