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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Young Girl with Baskets of Produce in Outdoor Market

Date: 1915
Description: Young girl wrapping or unwrapping produce from baskets on an urban street, possibly in Chicago, Illinois. The girl is likely offering the produce. A boy an...
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Farmall B Tractor Hauling Produce

Date: 1946
Description: Man pulling a trailer with a Farmall B tractor on the farm of C.H. Meyerling. The trailer is loaded with tomatoes. A young man is standing next to another ...
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Loading Melons

Date: 1972
Description: An unidentified worker, probably in California, loading crates of melons onto a refrigerated railroad car.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente...
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Woman with Barrels of Fresh Vegetables and Produce

Date: 1910
Description: Woman in a printed blouse and skirt tying a bundle of vegetables with teeth and hands. Barrels of vegetables and other produce are set up in a large displa...
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Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
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G.H. Hicklin & Sons Truck

Date: 09 28 1937
Description: A man in a field loads boxes of produce onto the back of an International truck used by G.H. Hicklin & Sons of Burlington, Ontario.
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Grove Workers with DS-30

Date: 1937
Description: Three men use an International DS-30 truck and sprayers to work in a grove.
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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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Unloading Grapefruit

Date: 04 11 1935
Description: Elevated view of a man opening a door on the side of an International Model C-40 truck to empty grapefruit into an adjacent bin. The truck was owned by Cal...
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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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American Fruit Growers Wash House

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Men stand on a platform to load an International Model C-30 truck with celery at the American Fruit Growers Wash House.
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International Truck in Field

Date: 1935
Description: Male and female workers box celery beside an International Model C-30 truck parked in a field. The truck was owned by Joe Fields Service Company and hauled...
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Field Workers With Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A group of field workers fill crates with celery to be loaded on the bed of an International Model C-30 truck. The truck was owned by Joe Fields Service Co...
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Loading Crates of Fruit on Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two men load boxes of packed fruit into the back of a truck at the loading dock of the Vaughn-Griffin Packing Plant. The boxes have advertisements on them ...
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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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Weinstein Brothers Truck

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: A man unloads bags from the bed of an International Model C-30 truck with a special express body used by Weinstein Bros. fruit and produce dealers. The tru...

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