Selling the Farm: 12 Vintage Pictures of Abandoned Farms - Modern Farmer

Selling the Farm: 12 Vintage Pictures of Abandoned Farms

From the Library of Congress photo archives, a pictorial history of abandoned farms in the Great Depression.

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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned farm, Nebraska. c. 1938[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned farm, Ottawa County, Kansas. c. 1938[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Old buggy in a field of daisies near Vian, Oklahoma, on abandoned farm. c. 1939[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned tenant house. Hall County, Texas. c. 1937[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Washington, Klickitat County, near Goldendale. Wheat country, abandoned farm in foreground, occupied farm beyond. Heard in local filling station: “Well, heck, the large farmers are buying out the small farmers and taking over the country. The farmers have to do it in dry land farming to build their land up to where it was. The little fellows are off to the four winds.”c. 1939[/mf_h5]

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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]An abandoned farm in the central Oregon development area. Jefferson County, Oregon. c. 1936[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Farm implements on an abandoned farm in the Central Oregon. c. 1936[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned farm in the Oregon drought area. c. 1936[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned house of small farmer. Southwest Oklahoma. c. 1937[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Carter County, Oklahoma. Abandoned land, exhausted soil. c. 1937[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned farm. West Virginia. c. 1938[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Abandoned farm buildings near New Lisbon, Wisconsin. c. 1937[/mf_h5]

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