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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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Charles Green

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Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
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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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Sweep Horsepower Threshing

Date: 1890
Description: Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left.
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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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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
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Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child...
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Farm Scene

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Description: Three farmers scattered around a field strewn with piles of hay, and a man standing on a pile of hay on a wagon. There is a farmhouse and other buildings i...
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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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Tommy Thompson on a Motorcycle

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Description: Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson wearing a leather jacket and riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on a rural road. A cornfield can be seen in the backg...
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Hay Mowing

Date: 1947
Description: Young Ralph Quinney driving a horse-drawn hay-mower on his family's farm.
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Rice Shocking

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in a rice field, where they have been shocking the rice. A woman sits in a horse-drawn carriage, and in front of her, a you...
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Harvest Scene

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Description: View of a large team of horses pulling harvesting equipment. Several men are on the harvester. Caption reads: "A Harvest Scene At Beautiful Rio Vista, Cali...
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Mule-Drawn Harvester

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Description: A large team of mules is shown pulling a harvesting machine in a field of grain. Several agricultural workers are on the harvesting machine. Caption reads:...
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Thrashing Rye

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Description: Several agricultural workers are shown thrashing rye. Three men are loaingd rye near a thrashing machine, which is operating. Several other men and a pair ...
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Harvesting Grain

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Description: Agricultural workers are shown harvesting grain in the vicinity of Madill. Horse-drawn wagons full of grain are near a large pile of grain. Harvesting or t...
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Harvesting Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural laborers harvesting sugar cane.
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural workers cutting sugar cane, possibly in Morgan City. In the foreground, a young man sits on a pile of sugar cane, chewing on cane s...

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