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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00675
Title: Hogs eating from a 25 bushel Utility Hog Feeder
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 75/675, "13A", the stamp of B.M.Holt, and "Dirty as a hog pen but still clean".
Summary: A passel of hogs are gathered on the platform on which a wooden hog feeder has been placed. Some of the hogs are dark and some are light colored. The hogs and their 25 bushel capacity Utility Hog Feeder are in a fenced farmyard. A small clapboard sided shed is adjacent to the forage area. The photographer is from Fargo, N.D., and though the location of this farm is not given, it is likely within the Fargo area of eastern North Dakota. The photograph is part of the material collected during and after the Great Depression, under the auspices of the Work Progress Administration's Historical Data Project, overseen by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The project ran from 1936 to 1942.
Red ID: PH_I_145023 Image ID: 106058 Image Notes: 00075-00675

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0017
Item: 00675
Title: Hogs eating from a 25 bushel Utility Hog Feeder
Date: 1936-1942
Creator: Holt, B. M.
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 75/675, "13A", the stamp of B.M.Holt, and "Dirty as a hog pen but still clean".
Summary: A passel of hogs are gathered on the platform on which a wooden hog feeder has been placed. Some of the hogs are dark and some are light colored. The hogs and their 25 bushel capacity Utility Hog Feeder are in a fenced farmyard. A small clapboard sided shed is adjacent to the forage area. The photographer is from Fargo, N.D., and though the location of this farm is not given, it is likely within the Fargo area of eastern North Dakota. The photograph is part of the material collected during and after the Great Depression, under the auspices of the Work Progress Administration's Historical Data Project, overseen by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The project ran from 1936 to 1942.
Red ID: PH_I_145023 Image ID: 101366 Image Notes: 00075-00675-back

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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