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Farmers Union Workshop Meal

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Description: Farmers Union Workshop eating a meal together. Tom White, extreme left, was the Tennessee legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Conducto...
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Farmers Union Members by Fertilizer Co-op

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Description: Private building of Farmers Union Fertilizer Co-op, with three men in work clothes sitting in front. Junior Marlow on right.
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Man Reading Newspaper

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Description: A man, presumably a farmer, reading "The Tennessee Union Farmer" newspaper.
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Farmers with Large Haystack

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Description: Several farmers posing with a very large haystack. A man identified as "Uncle Dave" is standing on top of the hay.
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Wallin Brothers Threshing Rig

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Description: Crew of men harvesting grain using horses, a tractor and a thresher. Three men standing in the field at left are wearing suits and hats.
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Threshing Day

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Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
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Steam Plowing

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Description: A view of three men on a steam plow in a field. Caption reads: "Steam Plowing, Thomas Ranch, Chico, Cal."
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Steam Tractor

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Description: A view of two men on a steam tractor with a gang plow in a field. An automobile is behind the plow.
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Cabbage Garden

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Description: A view of two men standing and working in a garden in the Canadian Yukon Territory. Caption reads: "A Klondyke Garden, Dawson, Y.T."
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Cranberry Picking

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Description: A group of men picking cranberries in a field.
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Frank Otto Threshing Crew

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Description: A group of farmer workers stand with pitch forks in front of the first gas engine for threshing on the August Krenke farm. A horse-drawn vehicle is also vi...
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Hans E. Skott on a Tractor

Date: 1946
Description: Hans E. Skott demonstrates use of a tractor outdoors in a field. A line of Chinese farmers watch in the background. Two other men stand on the right.
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Cesar Chavez Speaking

Date: 1975
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, ...

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