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Elderly Woman Picking Turnips

Date: 02 23 1915
Description: Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I...
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Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago.
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F-12 Tractor and African American Field Workers

Date: 04 10 1935
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...
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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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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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Students Harvesting Carrots from School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Group of students working in Woodlawn School Garden. Mr. O.M. Plummer receiving carrots from a student.
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Receiving Crops for Community Kitchen

Date: 09 1928
Description: Man carrying baskets of field crops in to the receiving room of a community kitchen. A woman wearing an apron is standing near the door.
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Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant laborers hoe a cucumber field by hand. There is one worker in the foreground and two others in the background. Rows of seedlings extend across the ...
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Picking Tomatoes

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Description: View down rows of a field towards men, women, and children picking vegetables, probably tomatoes, in a field.
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Man and Woman with Market Stand

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of a man and a girl or young woman standing next to a market stand which has melons, roots, and other foods. The man is wearing ...
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Harvesting Onions

Date: 07 1936
Description: Men and women harvesting onions in a field, filling wooden crates. There are trees along the edge of the field in the background.
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Tomato Club Growers — Dist. 4

Date: 1914
Description: Two women are using gardening tools in a tomato garden. A barn is on a slope below them in the background. Katherine Groty (?). Hand-tinted lantern slide.

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