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McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als...
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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...
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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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Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...

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