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| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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| Description: | African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan... |
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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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| Description: | Members of a Farmers Union workshop at Highlander Folk School are seen relaxing in the men's dormitories on bunk beds. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
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| Description: | African American workers picking cotton in a cotton field. Possibly in Mississippi. |
| Date: | 06 1931 |
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| Description: | African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
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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... |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers picking oranges in an orchard. Several men are on ladders picking fruit, while other men pose on the ground. A horse-drawn ... |
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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." |
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| 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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| Description: | Two teams of horses aren pulling agricultural machinery, and a horse-drawn carriage is nearby. Most of the large field has been harvested, and bundles of w... |
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