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R9_243231th

Image ID:  R9_243231
Image Date:  Sept. 1929
Image Title:  [Digging to save a school from a peat fire.]
Image Caption:  Fire--Suppression--Peat fire. Fighting a peat fire by digging to save a school building and roads in Beltrami County, Minnesota.
Photographer:  Shipp, E. S., for the U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Repository Contact Information:  NARA Great Lakes Regional Archives; 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, Illinois 60629-5898.