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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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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 ...
Photograph

Shipping Carrots

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market.
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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...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onions

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn....
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Sugar Beets

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Will It Go In (with Vegetables)

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of two men standing over an open cellar door, attempting to push a giant root vegetable into it. Two women with brooms are holding a baby by t...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Slicing Tomatoes

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a boy using a saw to cut into a giant tomato. A man stands beside the boy, watching. A group of giant tomatoes cover the foreground. The wo...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Green Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Beating the Coal Trust

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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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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Cabbage Garden

Date: 
Description: A view of two men standing and working in a garden in the Canadian Yukon Territory. Caption reads: "A Klondyke Garden, Dawson, Y.T."
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Harvesting Onions

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Description: A view of men and women in a field during the harvest of onions. Caption reads: "April Bermuda Onion Harvest, Mission, Texas."
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Young Boy Harvesting Beans

Date: 1920
Description: A boy is holding a bushel basket while harvesting string beans in a field. A farmhouse and what appears to be a rabbit hutch or chicken coop are behind him...

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