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Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
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Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Photograph

WR-9 "Rice Field Special" Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Farmers using a McCormick-Deering WR-9 tractor to haul a trailer loaded with timber. The words "rice field special" are on the tractor.
Photograph

Stoddard Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 1941
Description: Joe Stoddard of the Chippewa tribe harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Indian Reservation.
Photograph

Mr. H. Puttemans using Chattanooga Reversible Plow

Date: 1919
Description: Mr. H. Puttemans turns under a failed rice crop by means of a horse-drawn Chattanooga Reversible Disc Plow at the Polytechnic School in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Photograph

North Vietnamese Rice Fields

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph of North Vietnamese women cultivating rice. The caption supplied with the photograph reads: "With the determination to defeat the U.S...
Photograph

Silvana Mangano in Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Date: 1949
Description: Scene still of Silvana Mangano, playing Silvana Melega, standing in a flooded rice paddy with two horses in Giuseppe De Santis's Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice...
Photograph

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...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Rice Harvesting Equipment Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering rice harvesting equipment. Three photographs of rice harvesting equipment in use are bracketed on to...
Photograph

Capture of Suspected Viet Cong

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna...
Photograph

IH 624 Diesel Tactor and Rice Thresher in the Philippines

Date: 1969
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes, and shows a man driving an International Harves...
Photograph

Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
Photograph

Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
Photograph

Workers Separating Rice from Stalks

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa...
Photograph

International Harvester 123-SP combine for rice harvesting

Date: 10 1943
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man in overalls and a hat harvesting rice in Oberlin, Louisiana with a self propelled combine. Unharvested crops are in the bac...
Photograph

415 Combine Harvesting Rice

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Description: Slightly elevated view from in front of a 415 self propelled combine harvesting rice. The combine is driven by a man in a white cowboy hat, and the IH logo...
Photograph

International 503 Self Propelled Combine Harvesting Rice

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter view from front of a man in a hat operating a 503 self propelled combine that is harvesting rice. Unharvested crops are visible in the foregr...
Photograph

McCormick Rice Special Combine in Field

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Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of man operating a McCormick rice special combine 125 SPV in a field.
Photograph

VN Ahn Edek Operation Quiet Fire

Date: 08 01 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers pause during a speed march through a rice field.
Drawing

Native American Women Harvesting Rice

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Description: Drawing of three women in a canoe harvesting wild rice.

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