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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men use a Titan tractor to power a silo filler. There are several wagons and a barn. A few of the men may be observers from International Harveste... |
| Date: | 06 1939 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor as another man stands on the tank of an attached 150-gallon sprayer while applying pesti... |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Three men pose on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor outfitted with an orchard sprayer in front of a grove of trees. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | At the center of the photograph is Ricardo Enriquez of Mercedes, Texas. He is at a grape boycott picket with other students. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout. Eighty workers of His... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company. In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in front of Hartford Store cucumber receiving station watch over polls on union election day. The ballot box is on the left side of the tab... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman pick cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posed in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the backg... |
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