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The Schroeder family's new house. Cleared and irrigated fields of their land beyond. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67

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The Schroeder family's new house. Cleared and irrigated fields of their land beyond. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67

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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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01/01/1939
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