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Picking Hops

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers picking hops. The hops are being loaded into large wheelbarrow-like carts. Caption reads: "Hop Picking, Puyallup, Wash."
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
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Harvesting with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder to harvest a crop on a hill overlooking a valley. Town buildings are on a hill in the far background. Two women and two ch...
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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
Poster

"Romance of the Reaper" Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for the "Romance of the Reaper" film for use in Australia. The poster features an illustration of Cyrus Hall McCormick building the firs...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Cotton Harvester

Date: 1944
Description: Dorothy Hutchison operating a McCormick-Deering H-10-H cotton picker in a field. Stencils and/or decals are on the machine.
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Hammer Mill Demonstration

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of men and women gathered to watch a hammer mill demonstration at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. There is a Farmall t...
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Laboring in Vegetable Garden

Date: 1908
Description: Group of men and women laboring in a garden among rows of leafy vegetables. There is a farmhouse in the background.
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Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall is using a gasoline engine to run a cream separator on the Babcock farm. The cream separator is driven by belts that are attached to the ...
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UAW Farm Implement Conference

Date: 05 10 1947
Description: Conference room at the United Auto workers (UAW) farm implement conference. Attendees sit at banquet tables and stand along the walls in the crowded room.
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UAW Farm Implement Conference

Date: 05 10 1947
Description: Conference room at the United Auto workers (UAW) farm implement conference. Attendees sit at banquet tables and stand along the walls in the crowded room.
Photograph

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Postcard

Threshing Time on the Old Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose...
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Cranberry Processing

Date: 1983
Description: Harvested cranberries being unloaded from a truck for cleaning and processing. A woman stands over the cranberries with a rake while adjusting the flow of ...
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Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant laborers hoe a cucumber field by hand. There is one worker in the foreground and two others in the background. Rows of seedlings extend across the ...
Photograph

Cucumber Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of a double row of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hoes.

Cultivando pepino

Vista desde el suelo de una línea ...
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Harvesting Cranberries Contained by Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks.
Photograph

Pea Viner

Date: 1924
Description: A group of farmers, including women and children, pose in front of a pea processing plant.
Print

Woman Using Auto-Tiller

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for the World Harvester Corporation's auto-tiller featuring a photograph of a woman using the machine in a field. The caption reads: "The fir...

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