Looking From His Dock at Sugar Lake, Mo., is Carl Sell. Northwest Missouri is drought-stricken. So is expanse of cracked earth at the lake's receding water line (at extreme left of photo. Sell fished from dock all last summer. One town in the area, Bethany, has received only 5 inches of rain in an 8-month period in which it would normally get 27 inches.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Looking From His Dock at Sugar Lake, Mo., is Carl Sell. Northwest Missouri is drought-stricken. So is expanse of cracked earth at the lake's receding water line (at extreme left of photo. Sell fished from dock all last summer. One town in the area, Bethany, has received only 5 inches of rain in an 8-month period in which it would normally get 27 inches.

Associated Press · [ca. June 1956]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Weather: Drought: Wire Photos

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