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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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