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Oil tanks, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1938
Shops, Washington, D.C., December 1937
Advertisement for bread, Washington, D.C., April 1937
New barn built by the FSA in northeast Kansas development project, October 1938
Corn, Kansas, October 1938
Bidding on futures, Minneapolis, Grain Exchange, September 1939
Flour mills and railroad cars, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939
Cornfield and farm, Hartford, Wisconsin, Fourth of July, 1941
Leaning grain elevator, Grand Island, Nebraska, November 1938
Sugar beets, Nebraska, October 1938
Grain elevator, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.
John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad, 1819
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.
John Keats: La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad, 1819
Photos by John Vachon (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)