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These workers from the Rural Electrification Administration are putting in a pole, Brown County, Kansas. This was the first rural electrical line in Kansas.
Creator: Wiggins, Byron
Date: 1938
Item Number: 294
Call Number: FK2.B4 .3 U. *3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 294
Agriculture - Structures - Barns
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Electricians
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Community services - Utilities - Electrical
Date - 1930s - 1938
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Rural electrification
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Brown
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Roads & Highways - Roads
Transportation - Trucks
Type of Material - Photographs
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