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Photograph, Churning Butter, USDA History Collection

"Mrs. Grace Herr churns butter on her farm home outside Lockport, Niagara County, New York. She has been doing it this way for the last ten years. July 1944." Origina1 caption, USDA photograph by Madeleine Osborne, number N-5903.

Churning butter
Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/3, file "Photographs--Butter churn, 1944," USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

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