Cook stove in tent home of young farmer and his wife. Vale-Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon. This is first year on this land, in fact, they had been here only two months. This year they will devote time, energy, and money to getting their land into cultivation. Livestock and chickens, etc. must also be accumulated before they will think too much about a house. This man has tried to get a (Farm Security Administration) loan, but the judges that he had too little irrigatable land for a loan
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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great depression photographs
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1941
Contributors
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Location
Creston
,
43.50127, -118.00991
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions. 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