Iowa Past to Present Teacher's Guide: Chapter 13: Life on the Farm—Iowa Style
Farm foreclosure
Cultivating corn
Dairy Farming Booms in Iowa
Four-row tractor corn planter
Pioneer Women
Threshing crew at work
Tractor with 5 wagons attached
Manual cradle to harvest grain
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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