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The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to farm on the dry arid land of central Oregon

The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to ...

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An abandoned farm in the central Oregon development area. Jefferson County, Oregon

An abandoned farm in the central Oregon development area. Jefferson Co...

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The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to farm on the dry arid land of central Oregon

The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A horsehoe that did not bring luck and a boy's old shoe that trod miles to and from a small one-room is the only evidence of human habitation that remains at this deserted farmhome in the arid and wind blown section of central Oregon where dryland wheat farming once poured gold into the homesteaders' pockets

A horsehoe that did not bring luck and a boy's old shoe that trod mile...

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A fertile irrigated valley is rare in the rimrock country of central Oregon

A fertile irrigated valley is rare in the rimrock country of central O...

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Abandoned farm in the Oregon drought area

Abandoned farm in the Oregon drought area

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Old homesteader on Oregon Coast land use project. Now relocated on a small farm

Old homesteader on Oregon Coast land use project. Now relocated on a s...

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Koosah Falls on the McKenzie River. Cascade Range, Oregon

Koosah Falls on the McKenzie River. Cascade Range, Oregon

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An abandoned farmhouse in central Oregon representing years of unfruitful efforts to make things grow

An abandoned farmhouse in central Oregon representing years of unfruit...

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Mount Hood and the Hood River Valley. Oregon

Mount Hood and the Hood River Valley. Oregon

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Rusting combines testify to unprofitable years of wheat farming in central Oregon

Rusting combines testify to unprofitable years of wheat farming in cen...

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Eight grades of school are taught by one teacher in this isolated school in the Oregon Coast range

Eight grades of school are taught by one teacher in this isolated scho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small school, cottage, cabin, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A broken-down windmill on a ranch bought by Resettlement Administration as a part of the Central Oregon grazing project. The extreme depth of these wells made many of them impractical

A broken-down windmill on a ranch bought by Resettlement Administratio...

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A field of alfalfa in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Mount Hood in the background

A field of alfalfa in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Mount Hood in the...

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Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

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Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

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Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An abandoned schoolhouse to which children travelled for miles. Jefferson County, Oregon

An abandoned schoolhouse to which children travelled for miles. Jeffer...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A fertile irrigated valley is rare in the rimrock country of central Oregon

A fertile irrigated valley is rare in the rimrock country of central O...

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 availabl... More

Rusting and battered combines of more prosperous days show how vain efforts are to grow wheat in the dry central Oregon area

Rusting and battered combines of more prosperous days show how vain ef...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man holding a sheep, Rehabilitation client. McMinnville, Oregon

A black and white photo of a man holding a sheep, Rehabilitation clien...

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 availabl... More

A horsehoe that did not bring luck and a boy's old shoe that trod miles to and from a small one-room is the only evidence of human habitation that remains at this deserted farmhome in the arid and wind blown section of central Oregon where dryland wheat farming once poured gold into the homesteaders' pockets

A horsehoe that did not bring luck and a boy's old shoe that trod mile...

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 availabl... More

Farm implements on an abandoned farm in the Central Oregon grazing project

Farm implements on an abandoned farm in the Central Oregon grazing pro...

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 availabl... More

Koosah Falls on the McKenzie River. Cascade Range, Oregon

Koosah Falls on the McKenzie River. Cascade Range, Oregon

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 availabl... More

A farm irrigated naturally by streams from the Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon

A farm irrigated naturally by streams from the Mount Hood National For...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eight grades of school are taught by one teacher in this isolated school in the Oregon Coast range

Eight grades of school are taught by one teacher in this isolated scho...

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 availabl... More

Rusting combines testify to unprofitable years of wheat farming in central Oregon

Rusting combines testify to unprofitable years of wheat farming in cen...

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 availabl... More

Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A field of alfalfa in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Mount Hood in the background

A field of alfalfa in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Mount Hood in the...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a body of water, Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

A black and white photo of a body of water, Sunset. Columbia River Gor...

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 availabl... More

A farm irrigated naturally by streams from the Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon

A farm irrigated naturally by streams from the Mount Hood National For...

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 availabl... More

Rusting and battered combines of more prosperous days show how vain efforts are to grow wheat in the dry central Oregon area

Rusting and battered combines of more prosperous days show how vain ef...

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 availabl... More

An abandoned farmhouse in central Oregon representing years of unfruitful efforts to make things grow

An abandoned farmhouse in central Oregon representing years of unfruit...

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 availabl... More

An abandoned farm in the central Oregon development area. Jefferson County, Oregon

An abandoned farm in the central Oregon development area. Jefferson Co...

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 availabl... More

Mount Hood and the Hood River Valley. Oregon

Mount Hood and the Hood River Valley. Oregon

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 availabl... More

A field of alfalfa in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Mount Hood in the background

A field of alfalfa in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Mount Hood in the...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Old homesteader on Oregon Coast land use project. Now relocated on a small farm

Old homesteader on Oregon Coast land use project. Now relocated on a s...

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 availabl... More

An Oregon dairy farm in the McKenzie River Valley, Oregon

An Oregon dairy farm in the McKenzie River Valley, Oregon

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An Oregon dairy farm in the McKenzie River Valley, Oregon

An Oregon dairy farm in the McKenzie River Valley, Oregon

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 availabl... More

Farm implements on an abandoned farm in the Central Oregon grazing project

Farm implements on an abandoned farm in the Central Oregon grazing pro...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned farm in the Oregon drought area

Abandoned farm in the Oregon drought area

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 availabl... More

A black and white photo of a river, Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

A black and white photo of a river, Sunset. Columbia River Gorge, Oreg...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Rehabilitation client. McMinnville, Oregon

Rehabilitation client. McMinnville, Oregon

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A broken-down windmill on a ranch bought by Resettlement Administration as a part of the Central Oregon grazing project. The extreme depth of these wells made many of them impractical

A broken-down windmill on a ranch bought by Resettlement Administratio...

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 availabl... More

An abandoned schoolhouse to which children travelled for miles. Jefferson County, Oregon

An abandoned schoolhouse to which children travelled for miles. Jeffer...

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 availabl... More