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Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
Description: Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif...
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Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i...
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Women Peeling Apples

Date: 1944
Description: Three seated women with bowls on their laps peel apples outdoors while two men stand in the background.
Photograph

Gathering Cranberries

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Description: Men and women in a bog picking cranberries.
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Children Gathering Cranberries

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Description: Six children sit in a cranberry bog, while another stands in the background.
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Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: A group of men and women pick cranberries in a bog.
Photograph

International Truck in Orchard

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Men load boxes of fruit, possibly oranges or grapefruit, into an International Model C-35 truck owned by the Clearwater Growers Association. Men using ladd...
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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."
Photograph

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."
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Picking Pineapples

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Description: Several men picking pineapples in a field. A tree line and two houses are in the distance. Caption reads: "Picking Pines At Fort Pierce, Florida."
Photograph

Picking Pineapples

Date: 
Description: Several men pick pineapples in a field. A tree line and two houses are in the distance. Caption reads: "Picking Pines At Fort Pierce, Florida."
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Harvesting Grapes

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Description: A view of a woman harvesting grapes and putting them in small, wooden baskets.
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Cherry Picking

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Description: Girls pick cherries in an orchard. Some hold buckets and sit on ladders.
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Pineapple Harvest

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Description: A group of workers harvest the fruit in a pineapple field. There is a large pile of pineapples in the foreground.
Photograph

Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's son Fedy (Ferdinand Leonard Hotz), in hat, and daughters pick cherries at the family orchard. Two of his daughters are standing on orcha...
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Cherry Picking

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: An unidentified boy stands and watches as a bushel of cherries is weighed on a scale. There are other baskets and covers on the ground.
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: Young men and woman pose with baskets and pails, and a girl stands by her bicycle at the Hotz cherry orchard. There are baskets, lids, and boxes of cherrie...

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