Dated August 26, 1930, this photograph from York county Maine was taken by George W. Ackerman.
During a nearly 40-year career with the Department of Agriculture, George W. Ackerman (1884-1962) estimated that he took over 50,000 photographs. Ackerman began working as a photographer for the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1910 at a salary of $ 900 a year.