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Hired help building a dam for a reservoir to water cattle and livestock on Tom Reed farm. Lexington, Nebraska

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Hired help building a dam for a reservoir to water cattle and livestock on Tom Reed farm. Lexington, Nebraska

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1941

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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

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dawson county

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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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