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Collection: CRG01 - Adams County
Folder: 0001.000
Item: 00002
Title: Trench warfare against the drouth, Adams County, N.D.
Date: 8/1934
Creator: Odou, William Desere,--1889-1983
Inscription/Marks: "Trench warfare against the drouth Aug. 1934. Burying U.S. condemned cattle, Adams County, N.D. Drouth Relief Program. Photo by Dr. W.D. Odou Hettinger"--Handwritten on front of photograph.
Summary: Four men and a team of horses work to bury cattle killed in the 1934 drought in Adams County. Many carcasses have already been dumped in a large trench.
Red ID: LG_I_285557 Image ID: 89754 Image Notes: 40643-00002

Collection: CRG01 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Adams County
Date: 1907-1972

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