Uzbek collective farmers watching the first waters of Syr-Darya river enter the sluices of the great Fergana canal which they helped to build. This canal irrigates the huge new cotton growing areas of Central Asia in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Summary
Image source: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, New York.
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: owibatch6
Film copy on SIS roll 0, frame 0.
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Date
01/01/1930
Location
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. 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