The Economics of Agriculture
Auctioneer
Four-row tractor corn planter
Mechanical Corn Picker
Farm foreclosure
Soil erosion
Conservation tilling
Cows and calves
Bank Closures
Iowa Farmers Strike
The Great Depression: Strike Turns Violent
Overproduction Leads to Low Prices
The New Deal Brings Relief
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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