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Men Posing in Cornfield

Date: 1915
Description: Two men pose in a cornfield with very tall corn stalks.
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Binding Oats

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers are shown binding oats using horse-drawn equipment. A team of five horses are pulling agricultural equipment, and another team...
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Wheat Field

Date: 1915
Description: A man poses in a wheat field in the vicinity of Tulsa. The field has been recently harvested, and bundles of wheat sit in rows.
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Threshing Wheat

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural workers are shown threshing wheat in a field in the vicinity of Tulsa. The processed wheat is being piled near the equipment. The machine near...
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Threshing Oats

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural workers in a large field in the process of threshing oats, in the vicinity of Tulsa. Piles of oats waiting to be processed are in the field.
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Harvesting Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers mowing and baling bottom land alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. The operation utilizes horse-drawn farm equipment. A barn and ...
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Baling Hay

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers are shown baling hay in the vicinity of Tulsa.
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Stacking Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Two agricultural workers use machinery to stack alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. One man stands on the large pile while another uses a pulley device to st...
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Shooting an Oil Well

Date: 1915
Description: Shooting an oil well in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. Caption reads: "Sho...
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Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
Description: Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar...

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