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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers cutting sugar cane, possibly in Morgan City. In the foreground, a young man sits on a pile of sugar cane, chewing on cane s... |
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| Description: | Several agricultural workers cutting sugar cane by hand. Caption reads: "Sugar Cane Cutters, Morgan City, LA." |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers, mostly women, cutting sugar cane by hand. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane." |
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| Description: | A group of agricultural workers cutting sugar cane. |
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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." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers use mules to plow a field near a dirt road. A farm building and electrical or telephone poles are in the background. |
| Date: | 02 09 1915 |
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| Description: | A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using two horses to pull a McCormick mower through a field, probably in or around Boston. Piles of what appear to be hay are in the background. |
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