Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land sur
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- Date
- 1937
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 10,106 × 8,061 pixels
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"Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land sur" (1937). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Sam_spending_$3,000,000_to_make_one_map._Washington_D.C._July_28._A_huge_photographic_map_which_when_completed_will_have_cost_$3,000,000,_is_being_put_together_by_the_Agriculture_LCCN2016872077.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 298626.
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