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Co-PIs Elizabeth Wuerffel and Jeffrey Will of Valparaiso University, along with the rest of their team (Alan Craig of XSEDE, Marcus Slavenas and Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Paul Rodriguez of the San Diego Supercomputer Center) have spent the last year analyzing the images Dust Bowl-era photography. This research, funded solely by XSEDE and conducted on both SDSC’s Comet and Oasis, entailed using pre-existing algorithms, as well as creating new algorithms, to study the large corpus of images belonging to the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information from 1935-1944, held by the Library of Congress (LOC). These images provide a glimpse into rural life and small-town America during this decade and throughout important events in America’s history such as the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.