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Mechanical Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste...
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Farmers in Field with McCormick-Deering Tractor and Corn-Picker

Date: 1930
Description: Farmers using a Farmall tractor, corn-picker and wagon in a cornfield on the farm of Robert Garst.
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African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
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German Farmers

Date: 
Description: German farm couple returning from the fields, crossing railroad tracks.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Man Operating International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon.
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Unloading International Harvester Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two men are watching as cotton is unloaded from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. A Farmall tractor is in the foreground.
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Cotton Picker on Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 1932
Description: Man operating an experimental 2-row cotton picker built around a Farmall Regular tractor [original caption reads: "Regular Farmall & 2 row cotton picker"]....
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Experimental Cotton Picker

Date: 03 16 1927
Description: Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan...
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Experimental IH Cotton Picker

Date: 1929
Description: View across cotton field towards right side of a man operating an experimental McCormick-Deering side and rear mounted one-row cotton picker.
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M-11-H Cotton Picker

Date: 1947
Description: Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in a cotton field.
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McCormick-Deering 123-SP Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of fifteen-year-old Peggy Wold operating a McCormick-Deering 123-SP (self-propelled) harvester-thresher (combine) on the farm of Car...
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Farmall 140 Tractor and 122 Disk Harrow

Date: 1970
Description: Right side profile view of a man pulling a 122 disk harrow through a field with a Farmall 140 tractor.
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220-A Self-Propelled Cotton Picker

Date: 1959
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220-A self-propelled cotton picker.
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214 Cotton Picker

Date: 1959
Description: Man operating a McCormick 214 2-row, low draw cotton picker in a cotton field.
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220 Cotton Picker

Date: 1956
Description: Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220 cotton picker.
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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Lunch Break

Date: 1915
Description: Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck.
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Woman Carrying Straw

Date: 
Description: Woman carrying straw into a log shed. The straw is probably bedding for cattle.
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Cranberry Pickers

Date: 1905
Description: Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries.

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