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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a man pulling a 122 disk harrow through a field with a Farmall 140 tractor. |
| Date: | 05 24 1979 |
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| Description: | Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman. |
| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Matias Perez and her daughter empty buckets of cucumbers picked into burlap bags. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve... |
| 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: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man working to harvest cranberries. As the berries are picked from the bog they are deposited in a small barge that moves along with the harve... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley. Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman holding a bucket and wearing a covering over her head, a checkered long sleeve shirt, pants, and gloves. She is standing behind crates of Roma toma... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A recruiter's billboard advertising work available for pickle harvesters. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle ... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | View of a blue International Harvester Loadstar with lift gear in a Florida orange grove. The truck has no cab, and a crane-like lift behind the driver is ... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | View of a red International Harvester Loadstar flatbed with no cab and hi-lift equipment for harvesting oranges. An African-American man is driving the tru... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man using a MRA 2940 International tractor in a field in India. Behind him in the field a man is walking with oxen. On the edge of the f... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez speaking while standing in front of a United Farm Workers banner commemorating the unionization of workers at a flower nursery on October 22, ... |
| Date: | 06 1973 |
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| Description: | A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool. |
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