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Picking Cucumbers

Date: 08 1970
Description: Mrs. Matias Perez and her daughter empty buckets of cucumbers picked into burlap bags.
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Weighing a Turkey

Date: 11 1947
Description: A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on.
Photograph

Threshing Steam Tractor

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges...
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Harvesting Strawberries

Date: 07 1937
Description: Picking strawberries on the farm of Earl Leverich in Monroe County. The Leverich family were leaders in commercial fruit growing in Wisconsin and Earl Lev...
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Cranberry Pickers

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Description: Wisconsin cranberry pickers, mostly women and children.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Will It Go In (with Vegetables)

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of two men standing over an open cellar door, attempting to push a giant root vegetable into it. Two women with brooms are holding a baby by t...
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Migrant Cherry Pickers

Date: 1963
Description: Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,...
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4-H Bee Club

Date: 1946
Description: John Amos and Wilbur Allio wear protective veils and are standing on either side of a hive of bees.
Print

Heritage

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Description: Man working a horse-pulled plow, with a young boy walking at his side.
Photograph

Louisiana Labor Leader

Date: 1973
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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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...
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Drilling Wheat

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Description: Elevated view of two men using agricultural machinery to drill (plant) wheat. "Superior" sign is on the machinery. A boy and a dog stand nearby. A horse an...
Photograph

Threshing Wheat in Kansas

Date: 1907
Description: A large group of agricultural workers is shown threshing wheat in a field. In the foreground a horse-drawn vehicle is in the field. In the background are s...
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Gathering Hay

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Description: Two men and a boy are shown gathering hay. The hay is being loaded onto a wagon pulled by two horses. A brook and a road are in the background. Caption rea...
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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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Harvesting Cotton

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Description: Two children pose near a pile of harvested cotton, location unknown. Nearby, another child stands next to a woman picking cotton.
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Picking Cotton

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Description: A group of agricultural workers in a cotton field near Temple. Two men use a weighing device to weigh a bushel basket full of cotton. Two small children ar...
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Picking Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in the vicinity of Shawnee. Several children are in the field. The cotton is being loaded into a horse-drawn...
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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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