1934 Print Pigs Skeleton Dust Bowl Great Plains Bourke-White Livestock Death FZ3 XGI7 Small hole - left margin

Small hole - left margin

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1934 Print Pigs Skeleton Dust Bowl Great Plains Bourke-White Livestock Death FZ3 XGI7 Small hole - left marginThis is an original 1934 halftone print of pigs in a field during the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. The caption writes, "In ditches, in the stubble, unburied and unlimed, the starved beasts lay, insulting the very nostrils of that sun which had brought them down. Farmers were under strict government orders to dispose of them. But farmers, for one reason and another, got pretty sick of the government as the summer wore on and were mostly too