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| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two men standing over an open cellar door, attempting to push a giant root vegetable into it. Two women with brooms are holding a baby by t... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two men with a logging crosscut saw cutting a giant ear of corn. A mound of giant corn stands beside them. There is a barn in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a boy using a saw to cut into a giant tomato. A man stands beside the boy, watching. A group of giant tomatoes cover the foreground. The wo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of three women and a little girl pulling up a giant carrot root. Several other giant carrots, some of which have been pulled out of the ground... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Man (Mr. Goodyear?) holding a muskmelon in an agricultural field. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers on and near a large pile of hay use an International Harvester Mogul(?) 15-30 tractor and hay press in a field. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting and shucking a pile of corn in the middle of a harvested cornfield. In the background is a wagon full of corn. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A young man driving a two-horse manure spreader in a snowy field. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | An International 20 H.P. Type B Tractor owned by J.S. Curtis, but operated by G.W. Crosby. According to the original caption, Crosby operated the outfit wi... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | HM-110-L cotton picker attached to a Farmall H tractor in a cotton field. A man is sitting at the wheel of the tractor. |
| Date: | 07 24 1929 |
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| Description: | A man spraying a cotton crop with a Farmall Regular tractor and a McCormick-Deering cotton duster owned by J.R. Clark of Dallas, Texas. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Harry M. Cosway, tractor operator for Porter & Bonney, driving a tractor through a crop of potatoes. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | John Amos and Wilbur Allio wear protective veils and are standing on either side of a hive of bees. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
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