Mrs. Faro Caudill placing milk into homemade cooling box. Damp cloths are wrapped around buckets and jars of milk, and rapid evaporation in the open air produces sufficient cooling to keep milk. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Faro Caudill pouring water over cloth-covered milk bucket to keep the milk cold. This is the temporary camp while they are moving their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Whinery placing bucket of milk in cooling room. Pie Town, New Mexico

Resident of Mays Avenue camp under the bridge, covering milk with wet cloth in order to keep it cool. Many residents of this camp sneak into stockyards early in the morning to milk cows

Farmer steaming his milk cans before taking them home. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas

Draining off buttermilk from churn at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. The buttermilk is dried and marketed as feed

Morman refrigerator used by caretaker at Tonto National Monument. Gila County, Arizona. Water placed in tin container on top drips over the burlap and rapid evaporation in the atmosphere produces the cooling effect

Mrs. Faro Caudill placing milk into homemade cooling box. Damp cloths are wrapped around buckets and jars of milk, and rapid evaporation in the open air produces sufficient cooling to keep milk. Pie Town, New Mexico

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/06/1940 - 30/06/1940

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