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The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

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Buffalo, NY
Buffalo, NY 1918.

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Looking into the eyes of the boy soldier sitting in the middle reminds me of the campfire scene with the young rebels from the movie "Ride With the Devil" or the novel it was based on, "Woe to Live On".

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"He was up there once long ago, long ago, way before they hung him. He said the dirt was so rich you could eat it like porridge."

"They have very good dirt up there," Jack Bull said. “But a short grow season."
 
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Albany Oregon
How about some farmer's hats. Doing some research for the centennial of one of our county Extension Offices. Seems that even though you were working in the fields, a man still had his trusty hat!
1939 Corn farmer with a casual crease.

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Alphalfa crop with a possible porkpie in 1924
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Extension Agent with a farmer c1945
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1938 Case tractor and a center dent
 

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