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| Description: | Farmers harvesting and loading tobacco on a tobacco rack to take to a shed. |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
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| Description: | Composite of views showing the French market, sugar refinery and sugar sheds, fishing boats, steamer unloading bananas, and picking and cutting sugar cane ... |
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| Description: | Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon... |
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| Description: | Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm. |
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| Description: | Members of a Farmers Union workshop at Highlander Folk School are seen relaxing in the men's dormitories on bunk beds. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union Workshop eating a meal together. Tom White, extreme left, was the Tennessee legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Conducto... |
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| Description: | Private building of Farmers Union Fertilizer Co-op, with three men in work clothes sitting in front. Junior Marlow on right. |
| 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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| Description: | A man, presumably a farmer, reading "The Tennessee Union Farmer" newspaper. |
| Date: | 06 1931 |
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| Description: | African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia. |
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| Description: | Several farmers posing with a very large haystack. A man identified as "Uncle Dave" is standing on top of the hay. |
| Date: | 03 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve... |
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| Description: | A worker, probably in California, and probably a member of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union local P78, crating melons for shipment. |
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