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This is a photograph of the Wiebe family and their garden in Meade, Kansas. Visible in the photograph are people with various garden tools and a child with a bicycle. The windmill in the background was built of old automobile frames costing less than $2.00 and made the irrigation of the garden possible. The photograph was removed from the Relief Garden Program of 1935 portion of the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee collection.
Creator: Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Date: 1935
Item Number: 229160
Call Number: FK2.7 ERC.1935 *7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 229160
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices - Irrigation - Windmills
Agriculture - Crops - Vegetables
Agriculture - Structures - Windmills
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1930s - 1935
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Home and Family - Daily life - Gardening - Vegetable
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Meade
Places - Counties - Meade
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Bicycles
Type of Material - Photographs
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