MAKE A MEME View Large Image This is the land that supports the people in Irwin - some of the best land in . . . - NARA - 522305.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Shelby County Iowa This is the land that supports the people in Irwin -- some of the ...
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Keywords: Shelby County, Iowa. This is the land that supports the people in Irwin - some of the best land in . . . - NARA - 522305.jpg Scope and content Full caption reads as follows Shelby County Iowa This is the land that supports the people in Irwin -- some of the best land in the country The topsoil is deep fine-textured and free from stones and even the subsoil will produce good crops Because it is rolling this land washes and erodes faster than in the flat country to the East but farmers say it resists drought better than the latter This image is on of severa taken from the airplane owned by one of the community's young farmers See how straight the roads are in spite of the roll of the land Nearly all of them are on section lines General notes 522305 Local identifier 83-G-44136 Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Division of Economic Information ca 1922 - ca 1953 NARA-Author Rusinow Irving Photographer 5307166 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1941 05 02 - 1941 05 07 Record group Record Group 83 Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1876 - 1959 Record group ARC 412 Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies compiled ca 1922 - ca 1947 documenting the period ca 1911 - ca 1947 Series ARC 521048 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-83-G-44136 Other versions <gallery> File Shelby_County _Iowa _This_is_the_land_that_supports_the_people_in_Irwin_-_some_of_the_best_land_in_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522305 tif tif File Shelby_County _Iowa _This_is_the_land_that_supports_the_people_in_Irwin_-_some_of_the_best_land_in_ _ _ _-_NARA_-_522305 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Irving Rusinow Shelby County Iowa
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