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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
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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)
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)