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America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations's photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of... (Library of Congress) |
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Panoramic Photography
presents more than 20 panoramic photos: Chattanooga, TN, from a hilltop after the Union Army captured the city (1864); San Francisco after the earthquake (1906); the Panama Canal... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Wheat Farms, Flour Mills, and Railroads: A Web of Interdependence
examines those three industries as they evolved together in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and North Dakota during the late 1800s. The three depended on each other for success and... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle
tells the story of a man, a union, and a time when millions of Americans joined a just cause. The Fight in the Fields is a portrait of Cesar Chavez, the charismatic leader of the... (Independent Television Service, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Keys Ranch: Where Time Stood Still
tells the story of Bill Keys, whose ranch was the center of a desert network of homesteaders and miners in the early 1900s. At age 15, Keys left his Russian parents' home in Nebraska... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
shows 900 photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod houses... (Library of Congress) |
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Castolon: A Meeting Place of Two Cultures
depicts a small trading and farming community in far southwest Texas, near the border with Mexico (in the southwest corner of today's Big Bend National Park). Castolon was a farming... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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When Rice Was King
concentrates on Georgetown County, South Carolina, where rice, rather than cotton, was the principal commercial product. The site contains maps, readings, photos, drawings, as well as... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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The Hispano Ranchos of Northern New Mexico: Continuity and Change
features the small subsistence farms, or ranchos, created by Hispanos, early Spanish settlers of New Mexico, during the 1800s in the mountain valleys of the Pecos and Mora rivers... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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