10/24/11

Tom Clark: Precession

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Wheat farm, Walla Walla, Washington, July 1941

The distances seemed endless



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Wheat land, Walla Walla, Washington, July 1941

The vistas promised abundance



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On Main Street, Cascade, Idaho, July 1941

The days seemed endless


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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana: Russell Lee, October 1942

Rust followed us where we went


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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana, October 1942

Everywhere we looked there was disorder


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 Shasta Dam under construction, California, June 1942

The earth was made to see beyond itself


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 Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho, July 1941 

Its bounty reached to the sky


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Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Arizona, October 1940

Yet there was never more than enough


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 Filling station and garage, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

This was the poverty of the land


photoMill at Camp Bird Mine, Ouray, Colorado, October 1940

These were the riches of the earth


Poem by Tom Clark / Photos by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration 
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)