"Farm land in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Note the cleared patch on the wooded hill. Areas of hillside land so situated are usually arable for a few years only. The top soil soon washes away."
- Date
- 1933-10-22
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,125 pixels
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Reason: public domain: US TVA.
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