File:Mounted potato race 1941 Vale Oregon - 2.jpg

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Participants in a mounted potato race try to use their sticks to spear potatoes from a bucket.

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English: Black and white photograph of four men on horses using sticks to spear potatoes from a bucket. Taken by Russell Lee during a Fourth of July celebration in Vale, Oregon in 1941.
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Source Library of Congress
Author
Russell Lee  (1903–1986)  wikidata:Q514628
 
Russell Lee
Alternative names
Russell Werner Lee
Description American photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death 21 July 1903 Edit this at Wikidata 28 August 1986 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ottawa Austin
Work period 1936-1943 Farm Security Administration, 1950s/1960s Industrial photography (Standard Oil New Jersey, Aramco, J&L Steel), 1965-1973 University of Texas
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creator QS:P170,Q514628

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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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