John Vachon: In the Heartland: Fruits of the Plain


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Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Sorghum cane, Shawnee County, Kansas, October 1938

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Farmer at sorghum mill, Lancaster County, Nebraska, October 1938

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Sorghum cane from which syrup will be made, sorghum mill, Lancaster County, Nebraska, October 1938

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Farmers Union Co-op elevator, Centralia, Kansas, October 1938

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Farm children walking to one-room schoolhouse with lunch pails, Nebraska, October 1938


Photos by John Vachon (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)