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Signboard on land near Iron River, Michigan: photo by Russell Lee, April 1937
Sign advertising land for farm purposes, pine area, New Jersey: photo by Russell Lee, January 1938
Los Angeles, California. Auction sale sign in Little Tokyo. The stock belongs to a Japanese subject to evacuation from West Coast areas under Army war emergency order: photo by Russell Lee, April 1942
Sign of farm for sale, Malheur County, Oregon. The notice of eighty shares of water is indicative of the dependence of agriculture on irrigation water: photo by Russell Lee, May 1937
Auctioning pigs at Frank Sheroan's closing-out sale near Montmorenci, Indiana: photo by Russell Lee, February 1937

Notice which appeared in a Montmorenci, Indiana newspaper. Frank Sheroan sale: photo by Russell Lee, February 1937
Men taking bed apart at S.W. Sparlin auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937 
Goods to be auctioned at Sparlin sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

Farmer at S.W. Sparlin's auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937 
Speculators at S.W. Sparlin's auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937 
The auctioneer at S.W. Sparlin sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937
Group of children at Sparlin sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

An old farmer at the Sparlin auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937

Women at the Sparlin auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, photo by Russell Lee, August 1937
Photos by Russell Lee from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
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