New Salem, North Dakota – Flashback Friday

I don’t often get to show historical images, but Yale University just released 170,000 images from the Farm Security Administration’s depression era photo collection and I decided to check and see if I could find anything that I have photographed.

I decided to start with the latest photos I have made, which meant I was looking over the images from North Dakota. In recent years I have started taking photos of the small town I go through, abandoned, or not. So I was delighted to see that I had an almost perfect match for one of FSA photographer John Vachon’s images from the town of New Salem, North Dakota.

While New Salem is a few miles off the highway, I’m a sucker for road side attractions. I have to say I wouldn’t have made this stop if it wasn’t for Salem Sue (pictured below). The world’s largest Holstein Cow.

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