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Victory Gardens--for family and country. Victory Gardeners should learn the importance of cultivating around plants, such as these young cabbages, at regular intervals. Soil should be loosened to a depth of two or three inches so that plants may obtain maximum food

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Victory Gardeners should lear...

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General soil map Androscoggin and Sagadahoc Counties, Maine.

General soil map Androscoggin and Sagadahoc Counties, Maine.

Scale ca. 1:125,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Marriage of the Free Soil and Liberty parties

Marriage of the Free Soil and Liberty parties

A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The factions joined to form the Free Soi... More

New outskirts of town, showing Negro houses and soil erosion. Tupelo, Mississippi

New outskirts of town, showing Negro houses and soil erosion. Tupelo, ...

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The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territories : comprising a geographical and statistical description of the states ; Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio ; the territories of Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan ; and the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New-York ; with a complete list of the road and river routes, west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the connecting roads from New-York, Philadelphia, and Washington City, to New-Orleans, St. Louis, and Pittsburg ; The whole comprising a more comprehensive account of the soil, productions, climate, and present state of improvement of the regions described, than any work hitherto published; accompanied by a map of the United States, including Louisiana, projected and engraved expressly for this work

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territ...

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Can you fight? The empire needs every fit man. If the Germans win, no home on British soil will be safe. Wives, daughters, mothers will be at the mercy of the barbarian. Enlist now

Can you fight? The empire needs every fit man. If the Germans win, no ...

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A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot . , - a [sic] fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years.  Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defic...

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Soil map Jackson County, Mississippi /

Soil map Jackson County, Mississippi /

Shows distribution of soil types by colors and symbols. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Field operations Bureau of Chemistry and Soils 1927." "Base map in part from U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Ch... More

Church once supported by a prosperous congregation now abandoned, because the population moved out as a result of depletion of lumber and soil. Chaneysville, Pennsylvania

Church once supported by a prosperous congregation now abandoned, beca...

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A whirling plough used by USSC (United States Sugar Corporation) in soft muck soil to prepare soil for planting sugarcane. Near Pahokee, Florida

A whirling plough used by USSC (United States Sugar Corporation) in so...

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Jesse Stubs plowing, preparing soil to plant corn on newly-terraced land. Flint River Farms, Georgia

Jesse Stubs plowing, preparing soil to plant corn on newly-terraced la...

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After the beets are pulled, the soil is knocked off before topping. Adams County, Colorado

After the beets are pulled, the soil is knocked off before topping. Ad...

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

With the aid of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor, Fred Maschman, TP client, has worked out a farm plan that will enable him to live comfortably as well as conserve his soil. Iowa County, Iowa

With the aid of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor, Fre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jesse Stubs plowing, preparing soil to plant corn on newly-terraced land. Flint River Farms, Georgia

Jesse Stubs plowing, preparing soil to plant corn on newly-terraced la...

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Negro farmer at soil conservation meeting at Vernon, Oklahoma

Negro farmer at soil conservation meeting at Vernon, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Spreading lime to increase productivity of soil, before planting winter wheat on Emery M. Hooper's tobacco farm in Corbett Ridge section. Caswell County, North Carolina

Spreading lime to increase productivity of soil, before planting winte...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Case makes full use of scientific methods on his farm. Here he is making a soil test

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H...

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Escambia Farms, Florida. Land bordering on Escambia Farms FSA (Farm Security Administration) project showing results of poor terracing and grading. The sand wash has carried away all top soil and buried what little humus there is left

Escambia Farms, Florida. Land bordering on Escambia Farms FSA (Farm Se...

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

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and son, Teddy, watching the soil tester at work

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and son, Teddy, watching the soil t...

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General soil map, District of Columbia.

General soil map, District of Columbia.

Scale 1:24,000. Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by contours and soundings. "Compiled 1975." Includes notes and table of soil characteristics. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

Ripping Soil with Chisel Blade. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Ripping Soil with Chisel Blade. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Colle...

Ripping is done in former hay fields to help break up soil People in photograph: Magana, Jesus The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Cent... More

Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress

Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August ... More

Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that [blank] is a member of the [blank] Wide-awake Club

Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that [blank] is a...

A membership certificate for the Wide-Awake Club, a Republican marching club formed in February or March 1860 and active throughout the North during the election campaign. The club was dedicated to the preserva... More

Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on Virginia soil near the long bridge

Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on ...

Title on verso. Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Inscribed on verso: "I have a better sketch taken next day when the 7th had their turn General Mansfield and Capt. Meigs looking [...]. Similar image published in N... More

Children of the soil African-American experience

Children of the soil African-American experience

2 African American children in hollow of log(?).

Plowing the rich prairie soil with tractor, S. Dak.

Plowing the rich prairie soil with tractor, S. Dak.

No. 16733. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Typical Ozark backwoods scene, a corn patch in rocky soil. Meramec Forest project area. Near Salem, Missouri

Typical Ozark backwoods scene, a corn patch in rocky soil. Meramec For...

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

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control projects, Washington, D.C., August 10. Seeking a decision as to what flood control projects will be started as soon as Congress makes available $330,000,000 authorized in the omnibus flood control ? as well as projects that can be begun with funds now on hand, President Roosevelt called in those administration experts today. Left to right: Frederick A. Doland and Abel Wolman, of National Resources Board; H.H. Bennett, Director of Soil Conservation, Dept. of Agriculture; General Edward M. Markham, Chief of U.S. Army Engineers; and Aubrey Williams, Assistant Administrator of WPA

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control pro...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tractor pulling wooden floater to smooth the soil. El Indio, real estate development, Texas

Tractor pulling wooden floater to smooth the soil. El Indio, real esta...

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House on side of mountain in Bisbee, Arizona, showing the timber supports needed to keep soil from washing completely away from the house

House on side of mountain in Bisbee, Arizona, showing the timber suppo...

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Fred Coulter, Iowa corn farmer, examining soil on his place. Grundy County, Iowa

Fred Coulter, Iowa corn farmer, examining soil on his place. Grundy Co...

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A black and white photo of a pile of logs. Great Depression and Dust Bowl.

A black and white photo of a pile of logs. Great Depression and Dust B...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Provincetown, Massachusetts. City fathers of Provincetown, all of Portuguese descent, gathered in council, before a painting representing the signing of the Pilgrim compact in the bay of Provincetown upon the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil

Provincetown, Massachusetts. City fathers of Provincetown, all of Port...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man looking over strip cropping

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man l...

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Dorchester County, Maryland. The congregation of this church are all "watermen": oystermen, lobstermen, fishermen. Only a few raise anything on the soil and they all look to the Chesepeake Bay for their main source of livelihood

Dorchester County, Maryland. The congregation of this church are all "...

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U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New Guinea. Palm trees and branches lie strewn on the shell-churned soil of Buna Village, New Guinea, in the wake of the Japanese retreat before U.S. and Australian forces. The Japs were completely routed here with heavy losses

U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New G...

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A black and white photo of a person with a shovel. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a person with a shovel. Office of War Infor...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Taos County, New Mexico. Science class making soil tests in Penasco High School

Taos County, New Mexico. Science class making soil tests in Penasco Hi...

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The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas

The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil agains...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

[Illus: Prognostication: Clergyman ("Jupiter") blessing farmer ("Sagitarius") tilling soil; "Mars" in armor is radiating beams upon them]

[Illus: Prognostication: Clergyman ("Jupiter") blessing farmer ("Sagit...

Illus. in: Paulus Middelburgensis, Bp., Prognostica ad viginti annos duratura, Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, 28 Sept. 1484. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, standing in field, probably at Tuskegee, holding piece of soil]

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, standing in field, pr...

Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-520

Soil map : West Virginia, Boone county sheet.

Soil map : West Virginia, Boone county sheet.

Relief shown by contour lines. Soil profile, legend, and conventional signs in margin. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

U.S. Marines - first to hoist Old Glory on foreign soil Join them for overseas duty / / Sidney H. Riesenberg 1913.

U.S. Marines - first to hoist Old Glory on foreign soil Join them for ...

U.S. Marines recruitment poster showing marines raising the American flag on a bamboo flagpole; also shows wood engraved scenes of marines in action in foreign countries. Reproductions of wood engravings by Axe... More

It is more serious than you think. The barbarian is almost at your gates. He violates, plunders, murders. Don't let him get a footing on British soil. Help to repel the invasion by enlisting now

It is more serious than you think. The barbarian is almost at your gat...

Poster is text only. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tillers of the Soil. Betty Rolfe, Maud Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Martha Warren of Seneca Falls, as Tillers of the Soil in the Dance Drama depicting the Progress of Woman to be given at the reception at Seneca Falls on July 20, in honor of the Officers and members of the National Woman's Party in connection with their seventy-fifth Equal Rights anniversary celebration.

Tillers of the Soil. Betty Rolfe, Maud Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Martha ...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Mary Bradley, Junior Hematologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Dept. of Agric., with a new invention of the Bureau with which parasites can be seperated from the soil

Miss Mary Bradley, Junior Hematologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry...

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old farmer in southern Iowa with horse and colt. The erosion in the background is rapidly washing away his once rich soil. Iowa, Decatur County

An old farmer in southern Iowa with horse and colt. The erosion in the...

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A young boy is standing in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A young boy is standing in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Admi...

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

Group of farmers at soil conservation meeting. Livingston County, Illinois

Group of farmers at soil conservation meeting. Livingston County, Illi...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pile of soil pipe. Greenhills, Ohio

Pile of soil pipe. Greenhills, Ohio

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

Strip cropping retains water and protects the soil from the wind. On the edge of the Panhandle. Childress County, Texas

Strip cropping retains water and protects the soil from the wind. On t...

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

The latest in cotton planting. Washington, DC, July 15. John Randolph, engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture Engineering demonstrates a model of a variable depth cotton planter which he invented. The small white dots at which he is pointing mark the wavy line of seed as planted by this new machine which makes it possible to get a strand of cotton no matter what the moisture conditions in the soil. This planter is now manufactured by several farm machinery companies and thousands are in use in the cotton belt, The essential part of the machine is a cam which causes the planting shoe to rise and fall as the planter moves forward, 7/15/38

The latest in cotton planting. Washington, DC, July 15. John Randolph,...

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Senators see damage done by soil erosion. Washington, D.C., March 9. H.H. Bennett, Chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, is shown describing to members of the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee the great amount of damage done throughout the country by soil erosion. Bennett said that soil erosion is a serious cause of impoverishment due to the ruin of productive agricultural land by it every year, 3/9/38 Senators Carl A. Hator and James Byres of the committee are shown on the left

Senators see damage done by soil erosion. Washington, D.C., March 9. H...

A black and white photo of a group of men looking at a map. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man plowing a field, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man plowing a field, Texas, during Great ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Public Health Serive Investigation Commission to the China-Burma higway, Chefang Valley, China. Long straight ditch the morning after it had been dug. The soil is so soft that the walls shift in one night whenever there is action by small springs

Public Health Serive Investigation Commission to the China-Burma higwa...

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

Soil erosion and remaining chimney of house. Greene County, Georgia

Soil erosion and remaining chimney of house. Greene County, Georgia

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Fruits of the soil on farm of Ernest W. Kirk Jr. ,FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Ordway, Colorado. Shown in the picture are sugar beets, honeydew melon, hybrid corn, successfully grown stringbeans and kaffir corn in background

Fruits of the soil on farm of Ernest W. Kirk Jr. ,FSA (Farm Security A...

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Loosening carrots from soil with plow before pulling in order to prevent breaking, near Santa Maria, Texas

Loosening carrots from soil with plow before pulling in order to preve...

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Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Revetment constructed by Soil Conservation Service to protect land from further washing. Chamisal, New Mexico

Revetment constructed by Soil Conservation Service to protect land fro...

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U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Faro Caudill planting beans. The block of wood dragging after the planter is a homemade contrivance for smoothing out soil after seeds have been planted. Pie Town, New Mexico

Faro Caudill planting beans. The block of wood dragging after the plan...

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New outskirts of town, showing Negro houses and soil erosion. Tupelo, Mississippi

New outskirts of town, showing Negro houses and soil erosion. Tupelo, ...

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Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

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Soil erosion serious cause for impoverishment senate committee told. Washington, D.C., March 9. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, H.H. Bennett, Chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, declared that soil erosion is a serious cause of impoverishment. "To the Nation as a whole" Bennett said, "uncontrolled erosion has brought a gradual and continuing reduction of productive agricultural land," 3/9/38

Soil erosion serious cause for impoverishment senate committee told. W...

A man sitting at a table with a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jesse Stubs plowing, preparing soil to plant corn on newly-terraced land. Flint River Farms, Georgia

Jesse Stubs plowing, preparing soil to plant corn on newly-terraced la...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro farmer at soil conservation meeting at Vernon, Oklahoma

Negro farmer at soil conservation meeting at Vernon, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting of Negro farmers for soil conservation talks and plans. Vernon, Oklahoma

Meeting of Negro farmers for soil conservation talks and plans. Vernon...

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District soil conservation supervisor illustrating soil conservation methods by use of enlarged photographs. Meeting of Negro farmers at Vernon, Oklahoma

District soil conservation supervisor illustrating soil conservation m...

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Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man looking over strip cropping

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man l...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Chemical prospecting for oil becomes more and more important as the war goes on the demand for oil increases. Petroleum engineers call chemical prospecting the first scientific approach to the detection of oil in the earth. The big glass condensers, with which these engineering students are working with a professor of geophysics are used in a soil analysis test. The percentage of wax left as residue at the end of the experiment indicates the nearness of petroleum to the site from which the soil sample was taken. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Chemical prospecting for oi...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lease lend loadings. Destined, perhaps, to aid in keeping aggressors from peaceful soil, the barbed wire is being carted from pier to ship's hold where it will cross the ocean under lend-lease contract

Lease lend loadings. Destined, perhaps, to aid in keeping aggressors f...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Victory Gardens--for family and country. First step in preparing ground for a Victory Garden is to turn the soil. It is well to spade deeply and as early as possible, choosing a time when the soil is easily worked

Victory Gardens--for family and country. First step in preparing groun...

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Borneo soil trafficability / Historic map, Library of Congress

Borneo soil trafficability / Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

General soil map Maine / - Public domain map

General soil map Maine / - Public domain map

"April 1978." Relief shown by spot heights. Filing title in right upper margin: Maine. "Base source--U.S. Geological Survey base map." Accompanied by text: The soils of Maine / Robert V. Rourke, John A. Ferwerd... More

BYRD WELCOMED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD AS THE FAMOUS EXPLORER SETS FOOT ON AMERICAN SOIL AFTER A 2 YEAR TRIP TO LITTLE AMERICA IN THE SOUTH POLAR REGION

BYRD WELCOMED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS REAR ...

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Drifting soil in a farmyard. Hartley County, Texas

Drifting soil in a farmyard. Hartley County, Texas

Public domain image of a romantic landscape with windmill, Netherlands, 16th-17th century artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Removing drifts of soil which block the highways near Guymon, Oklahoma

Removing drifts of soil which block the highways near Guymon, Oklahoma

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Cut-over farm in Iron County, Michigan. The dried grass has been burned, as is customary among farmers in the spring. This is a doubtful practice because of damage to the humus of the soil

Cut-over farm in Iron County, Michigan. The dried grass has been burne...

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

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico.  "I left cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat. (The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right. If you stay in the house and wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop.  But I"ve seen only one year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something"

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexic...

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Cut-over landscape, approaching winter rain, showing settler's shack on poor sandy soil. Boundary County, Idaho. See general caption 49

Cut-over landscape, approaching winter rain, showing settler's shack o...

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Breaking virgin soil with tractor and plow, El Indio, Texas

Breaking virgin soil with tractor and plow, El Indio, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father has dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket, then cover the roots with earth. Her father hopes to send her to school. Note pine woods and light colored soil. Near Olive Hill, North Carolina

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potato...

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Farm land, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Notice how the soil has washed. This county is one of the worst eroded in the state

Farm land, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Notice how the soil has washed. ...

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

Tilling field, showing rocky soil along Route 34, three miles north of Spencer, New York

Tilling field, showing rocky soil along Route 34, three miles north of...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farms. John Seabrook with a chemist in the laboratory making a soil analysis

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farms. John Seabrook with a chemist in...

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Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence Avenue and 14th and 16th Streets, S.W. Waterproof paper is placed on a prepared subgrade before pouring the concrete to prevent the water in the mixture from being soaked up by the soil. The water stays in the concrete, making it stronger

Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence A...

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Dragging the soil after the seed has been deposited

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Dragging the soil after the seed has be...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, containing an account of his travels through France, Italy, the East and West Indies, and part of the United STates; his imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, manners and customs of the different countries. Written by himself.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, co...

The part of the book following p. 80 is chiefly devoted to the author's travels in the United States and Mexico. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-04-23 update (1 ... More

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, containing an account of his travels through France, Italy, the East and West Indies, and part of the United STates; his imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, manners and customs of the different countries. Written by himself.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, co...

The part of the book following p. 80 is chiefly devoted to the author's travels in the United States and Mexico. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-04-23 update (1 ... More

H.H. Bennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Resettlement Administration
U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1100.

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1100.

Government experts test power of gas to keep weeds out of golf greens. Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Attention golfers!! Your putting is bound to improve and your cussing cut down if the tests now being conducted by grass experts of the Department of Agriculture on the use of tear gas to keep weeds out of golf greens are successful. A.E. Rabbit, (left) grass specialist of the United States Gold Association with whom the Department of Agriculture is cooperating in making the tests, is pictured as he pours the gas into the soil while Stanley Graeff, Dept. of Agriculture, rakes it over. The gas treatment was developed by Dr. John Monteith of the Department of Agriculture

Government experts test power of gas to keep weeds out of golf greens....

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Soil erosion takes a toll of millions of dollars in the United States annually. The causes of this drain upon productive lands and preventive measures are graphically shown in an exhibit prepared by the Office of Exhibits of the United States Department of Agriculture for exhibition at the sesquicentennial exposition. Florence Bryant, an artist, is shown painting the exhibit

Soil erosion takes a toll of millions of dollars in the United States ...

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Georgetown University students give German track star a noisy welcome in Washington. Students at Georgetown University where he is a guest while in Washington gave Dr. Otto Peltzer, noted German athlete, a noisy welcome when he appeared at the athletic field for his first "workout" today since landing on American soil. Dr. Peltzer has beaten such stars as Paavo Nurmi and Edvin Wide in the 1,500 meters on the tracks in Europe

Georgetown University students give German track star a noisy welcome ...

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Soil drifting over hog house. South Dakota

Soil drifting over hog house. South Dakota

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