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Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
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...
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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.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
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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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Fruit Pickers

Date: 1939
Description: Men carry baskets around their waists while picking peaches from trees in an orchard.
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Peachacre Farm Truck

Date: 1939
Description: Two men load peaches onto the back of an International D-35 truck used by Peachacre Farm. One man is standing on a ladder with a basket near a tree in the ...
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International Truck in Orchard

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Men load boxes of fruit, possibly oranges or grapefruit, into an International Model C-35 truck owned by the Clearwater Growers Association. Men using ladd...
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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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Dr. P. Phillips Company Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two men load the back of a bed of an International Model C-35 truck with wooden crates full of citrus fruit, while Walter Phillips stands near the driver's...
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Truck in Orchard

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A man loads a crate of citrus fruit onto an International Model C-35 truck in an orchard. The truck was used by Dr. Phillips Company, owners of 5,000 acres...
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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

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Description: Agricultural workers pick apples. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
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Gathering Elberta Peaches

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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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Picking Pineapples

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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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Picking Pineapples

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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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Pineapple Harvest

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Description: A group of workers harvest the fruit in a pineapple field. There is a large pile of pineapples in the foreground.
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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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