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Four-row Tractor Corn Planter, 1940
Time Frame: 1940
Four-row tractor corn planter. Jasper County, Iowa. May, 1940
Photographer: John Vachon
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
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