You know the Dinah Washington classic, “What a Difference a Day Makes”? Let me tell ya; 24 short little hours don’t hold a candle to 75 years, as shown by these 12 pictures taken in Kansas in 1941:

1. "Farmstead and farmland near Almena."
Yale/Russell Lee
2. "Oil refinery. Augusta, Kansas. White Eagle Division of Mobil Gas."
Yale/Marion Post Wolcott
3. "Derby oil company refinery."
Yale/Marion Post Wolcott
4. "First National Bank corner."
Yale/Russell Lee
Captured in Norton.
5. "Oil refinery. Augusta, Kansas. White Eagle division of Mobil Gas."
Yale/Marion Post Wolcott
6. "Sign on building in Wichita, Kansas, boom town crowded with new defense workers."
Yale/Marion Post Wolcott

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7. "Country church on Highway 83."
Yale/Russell Lee
Captured near Norton.
8. "Kansas City Stockyards."
Flickr/Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M
9. "Barnsdall oil refinery."
Yale/Marion Post Wolcott
Captured in Wichita.
10. "Tulips in bloom."
Flickr/hewy
Captured in Almena.
11. "The Hackey Family."
Flickr/Franklin B Thompson
Captured in Wellington.
12. "Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas, worked in oil fields about ten years cutting tool joints off a drill pipe. In Goodrich field of Continental oil company."
Yale/Marion Post Wolcott
Captured near Wichita.

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