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Barbed wire and barbed wire fence covered by drifting sand, with tumbleweed growing up all around. This is in a section which in one day is reputed to reproduce forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Near Syracuse, Kansas
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Barbed wire and barbed wire fence covered by drifting sand, with tumbleweed growing up all around. This is in a section which in one day is reputed to reproduce forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Near Syracuse, Kansas

Lee, Russell · 1939-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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hamilton countydust, abandoned farmskansassafety film negativessyracuseunited states
Credit lineBarbed wire and barbed wire fence covered by drifting sand, with tumbleweed growing up all around. This is in a section which in one day is reputed to reproduce forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Nea. 1939-01-01. Lee, Russell. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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