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Cranberry Harvest
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Freshly harvested cranberries float on the top of a flooded cranberry marsh. The berries are gathered and fed onto a conveyor belt that dumps the berries into a truck for transport. Harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to keep the berries within a confined area.
1980
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Cranberry Harvest
1980
Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
Cranberry Harvest
1983
Men harvest cranberries by raking the fruit across flooded marshes onto a conveyor belt which loads the berries into trucks.
Cranberry Gathering
1980
Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh.
Raking Cranberries
1980
Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor.
Cranberry Harvest
1983
Man in waders walking through a cranberry marsh during harvest. Marshes are flooded and harvested berries float to the surface. Booms and rakes are then used to gather the berries.
Cranberry Harvest
1983
Man with cranberry rake harvesting berries on flooded marsh.
