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Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago.
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Feeding a Calf

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan.
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Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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North Vietnamese Rice Fields

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph of North Vietnamese women cultivating rice. The caption supplied with the photograph reads: "With the determination to defeat the U.S...
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Farm Employee Housing

Date: 1929
Description: Farm employee housing. Original caption reads: "employees cottages on Briarcliff Farms." Children are sitting on the porch of the house in the foreground.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1945
Description: Men in waders harvesting cranberries. In the foreground the fields have been flooded for the harvest. In the background crates have been stacked along the ...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1945
Description: Men in flooded cranberry field for harvest.
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Raking Cranberries

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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Men with Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1965
Description: Two men, in waders, posing with cranberry harvesting equipment and freshly harvested berries. The berries have been loaded onto small barges.
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Man Operating a Sprayer in a Fruit Orchard

Date: 08 1923
Description: Man spraying pesticide(?) on a tree in an orchard. Original Caption: "Copy negative loaned by Niagara Sprayer Company. No negative."
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Harvesting Grain into Horse-drawn Wagons

Date: 
Description: View across field of two men pitching grain into horse-drawn wagons. Between the two wagons is a man in a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is an...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Left side profile view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn mower. Buildings are in the background in the distance at the edge of the field, and a tree-lined ...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards a man using a horse-drawn binder. There is a man on horseback on the left near the front of the binder. Behind the bind...
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Man and Young Boy Cutting Manila Plants

Date: 1910
Description: A man and a young boy outdoors cutting manila plants.
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Men Riding Horse-Drawn McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are working in a field, assisting with grain shocks, while a man on the left is driving a horse-drawn Binder.

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