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Tobacco Farm Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Group of farm workers are standing and posing in a field while threading tobacco leaves on lathes for drying. Two children and a dog are standing in the ce...
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Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.
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Spring Spraying

Date: 1952
Description: Farmer spraying a fruit tree in blossom.
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Feeding the Thresher

Date: 1959
Description: Paul Lembcke and his son Roy threshing grain on their farm at harvest time.
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The Harvest

Date: 1963
Description: A man shocking oats at harvest time.
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Cherry Harvest

Date: 1963
Description: Cherry picking on the Door Peninsula. A man is pouring cherries into boxes from a bucket.
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Newspaper in the Raw

Date: 08 1963
Description: Elevated view of newspaper pulp wood stacked along the Fox River near the Combined Locks Paper Company. A crane is moving the logs, and workers are standin...
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Woolly Harvest

Date: 06 1973
Description: A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool.
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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the...

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