The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands, 8b27761a
"The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands". Taken for the Farm Security Administration, the photo caused controversy in 1937 when politicians and papers claimed the photo was staged to make drought conditions look worse than they were.
- Date
- 1936-05
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 5,192 × 4,733 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands, 8b27761a" (1936-05). FSA/OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_bleached_skull_of_a_steer_on_the_dry_sun-baked_earth_of_the_South_Dakota_Badlands,_8b27761a.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 125714.
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