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Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
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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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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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Combined Wheat Harvester

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Description: A team of mules pulling a combined wheat harvester, location unknown. Several agricultural workers are on and near the harvesting machine. What may be a sm...
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Harvesting Hay

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Description: Two men are shown harvesting hay, loading it onto a wagon pulled by a team of oxen. A steep hill with a small footbridge is in the background. Caption read...
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Loading Hay

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Description: Agricultural workers are loading hay onto a wagon pulled by two horses in the vicinity of Carbondale or Elk Hill. A man sits in a horse-drawn carriage near...
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Hand Picking Cotton

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Description: Agricultural workers picking cotton by hand. Two children are on the right side of the group.
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Picking Cotton

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in a field.
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Picking Hops

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking hops. The hops are being put into large wooden baskets. In the center several people are pouring the contents of on...
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Young Man Riding a Mule

Date: 1900
Description: A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane.
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Tobacco Field

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Description: Two men pose in a tobacco field in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
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Picking Tobacco

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Description: Agricultural workers picking tobacco in a field in Havana, Cuba. A small agricultural hut or shed is nearby.
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Flower Fields

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Description: A group of men posing in a flower field owned by the Camusat Brothers company. Some of the men are holding bouquets of flowers. Caption reads: "Flower Fiel...
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Pepper Picking

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Description: A group of men, women and children in a field. Caption reads: "Picking peppers for Green Heart Tabasco Sauce, New Iberia, LA."
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Cranberry Picking

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Description: A group of men picking cranberries in a field.
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Plymouth in 1622

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Description: Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891.
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Home of Governor Bradford

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Description: Reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams of the home of Governor Bradford in 1621. Exterior view features logs, a thatched roof, a chimney, and a surro...

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