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Tobacco Farming

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Description: Farmers harvesting and loading tobacco on a tobacco rack to take to a shed.
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Dale Farm

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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...
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New Orleans Composite

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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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California Poppy Field

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Description: A worker is shown in a California poppy field.
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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."
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
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...
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
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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Planting Seedlings

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Description: Planting seedings at the state nursery at Trout Lake.
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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Farmers Union Members by Fertilizer Co-op

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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.
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Farmers with Large Haystack

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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.
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Mobile Labor Union Office

Date: 11 1955
Description: California farm workers, somewhere near Salinas, wave to the union official who had visited them with the mobile union office of Packinghouse Workers Local...
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Wallin Brothers Threshing Rig

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Description: Crew of men harvesting grain using horses, a tractor and a thresher. Three men standing in the field at left are wearing suits and hats.
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Threshing Day

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Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
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Picking Apples in Oregon

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Description: Apple pickers at work in an orchard. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
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Picking Newton Pippin Apples

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Description: Agricultural workers pick Newton Pippin apples in an orchard. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Newton Pippin Apples."
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Picking Apples in Oregon

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Description: Agricultural workers pick apples. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
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Gathering Elberta Peaches

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Description: Agricultural workers pose in an Elberta peach orchard. They pose with a horse-drawn cart carrying baskets of peaches, and some of the men are holding peach...
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Picking Oranges

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking oranges in an orchard. Several men are on ladders picking fruit, while other men pose on the ground. A horse-drawn ...

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