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A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965
By Leslie A. Loveless, foreword by Christie Vilsack
University of Iowa Press, 137 pages, $34.95
Butchering a hog. Carrying eggs. Playing on hay bales. Making cotton mattresses. These are the subjects of A.M. “Pete” Wettach, whose photos captured the poignancy of farm life around Iowa during the Depression and postwar years. A supervisor with the Farm Security Administration, Wettach took tens of thousands of pictures on the side, and the ones collected here provide an intimate glimpse into the anguish and the charm of the rural Midwest.
