Word: graflex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...