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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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| Description: | African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. |
| Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a man pulling an experimental pull-type cotton picker through a cotton field with a Farmall Regular tractor. Another man is stan... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
| Date: | 06 1931 |
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| Description: | African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane. |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Young African-American man sitting on a P&O planter pulled by mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
| Date: | 05 02 1925 |
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| Description: | African-American man seated on a P&O planter pulled by four work horses or mules in large field. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men transporting large bales of cotton in a warehouse or loading dock. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | African American cranberry harvesters, possibly migrant workers, posing with crates of cranberries. |
| 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 ... |
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