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Grateful Populace Repays Drouth Debt To Stricken Cities

Reel Number: 221540-27

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1931

Country: United Kingdom,USA

Location: Arkansas,England

TC Begins: 01:38:51

TC Ends: 01:40:22

Duration: 00:01:31

Grateful Populace Repays Drouth Debt To Stricken Cities 01:39:01 Farmers in overalls putting sugar cane thru press powered by horse. Men w/ paddles stirring large steaming metal tub under cover. Children eating molasses (?) on sugar cane sticks. 01:39:18 Pan tall rows of corn, man tearing open ears on stalks. 01:39:28 MS Black farmer & family posing, gestures to large stack of cans, bottled fruit & vegetables & ducks on display on porch. 01:39:41 White farmers carry bushel baskets of fruit (?) across wide intersection followed by women, men w/ burlap bags over shoulders. Pan baskets & bags on ground w/ potatoes, watermelon. 01:39:58 Men loading squash into truck. Sign on side of truck: Food For Unemployed From England Ark and Community. Good Land & Good Folks. 01:40:11 Truck convoy thru small town main street. 1931; Depression; Agriculture; Unemployment; Food Aid; 1930s;

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