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February 1940. A snowy street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
Hi Dave. You can delete this comment once you've seen it , but you're linking the Sleet Street 1940 full size view to the full size view of Stillwater County Montana 1942.
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