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Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
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Man in Field

Date: 10 1946
Description: Man (Mr. Goodyear?) holding a muskmelon in an agricultural field.
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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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Men Loading Fruit Crates

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Three men load wooden crates of fruit onto the bed of an International C-20 truck owned by the Citrus City Growers Association.
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Picking Apples in Oregon

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Description: Apple pickers at work in an orchard. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
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Picking Newton Pippin Apples

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Description: Agricultural workers pick Newton Pippin apples in an orchard. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Newton Pippin Apples."
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Picking Apples in Oregon

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers pick apples. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
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Apple Orchard

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Description: A view of several men, two children, and a horse in an apple orchard in Ontario County. Caption reads: "An Ontario County Apple Orchard, Phelps, N.Y."
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
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Pulling Stumps with Tractor

Date: 06 23 1924
Description: Two men using what appears to be a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to "pull stumps" in an orchard on the R.R. Robertson farm.
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Man Operating a Sprayer in a Fruit Orchard

Date: 08 1923
Description: Man spraying pesticide(?) on a tree in an orchard. Original Caption: "Copy negative loaned by Niagara Sprayer Company. No negative."
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Harvesting Tomatoes in Rio Grande Valley

Date: 1970
Description: Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley.

Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ...

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Tomato Harvester in South Texas

Date: 1970
Description: A woman holding a bucket and wearing a covering over her head, a checkered long sleeve shirt, pants, and gloves. She is standing behind crates of Roma toma...
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
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Tree Planting Crew

Date: 05 1911
Description: A pickup truck carrying a crew of 12 men is parked between two automobiles in front of a barn. The truck is identified as "Bingham & Lawrence Fruit and Nur...
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Planting Trees at Gibraltar Orchards

Date: 05 1911
Description: Stone walls line a tilled field where workers carry shovels and bundles of small trees to plant an orchard.
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Loading Bananas on a Train

Date: 1902
Description: Group of men loading a large pile of bananas onto a train in Costa Rica. Three men wearing suits and hats are sitting and standing on top of the railroad c...
Postcard

Cherry Picking in Door County

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view of workers picking cherries, some of them standing on ladders.

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