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Draft horse
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Farm Foreclosure, ca. 1935
Time Frame: 1930s
A foreclosure sale in Iowa in the early 1930s when "the bottom fell out of everything." Military police were on hand to keep farmers from disrupting the auction. ca. 1935.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
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