Maurine Auchampach Collection
Unprocessed — Box: 03648 D
Identifier: H2012-008
Content Description
The collection consists of five reprint photographs of cattle being slaughtered in Dewey County near Eagle Butte in 1934. The images show a trench being dug, cattle in the trench, and the cattle being slaughtered. The slaughtering of cattle and other farm animals (as well as the destruction of crops and other farm commodities) was one of the government methods which attempted to end the Great Depression of the 1930s through the United States Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933. The images were reprinted in the 1988.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- Event: 1934
- 1988
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet
- Cattle -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cattle Slaughter -- Great Depression -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Photograph Collection -- Manuscript Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- South Dakota -- Dewey County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Agriculture Adjustment Act, 1933 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
