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| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 11 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1921 |
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| Description: | Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two African American farmers in a field operating horse-drawn walking plows. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an African American man plowing a field with an International diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a disk plow. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | African American man operating an experimental two-row cotton picker in a field. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farmer L.C. Carter standing beside bales of cotton and a farm building. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right. |
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| Description: | A Farmers Union member from Astatde, Tennessee, attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Images of men with the words "Workers," "Farmers," and "Learn New Ideas at Highlander," collaged around them. Part of a series of Highlander photographic c... |
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| Description: | Farmers Union baseball game at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Five African American men wearing suits and singing into a microphone. There is a small farmers union sign on the back wall. |
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