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Men Planting at the Lake Nursery

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Description: Five men are planting a field, probably planting trees at the Lake Nursery. Behind them is a man standing near a farm building among rows of plants. Anothe...
Photograph

Frame 11: Man and Woman Picking Cotton

Date: 1964
Description: A man and a woman pick cotton by hand.
Photograph

Field with Workers

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Description: View from grassy field of a field of crops on a low slope. The crops are supported by wire or rope attached to posts at the end of each row. There are work...
Photograph

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posed in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the backg...
Photograph

Plastering Straw Stacks with Clay

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian men are plastering a straw stack with clay. Another straw stack can be seen on the right. Hills are barely visible in the distance. An out-of-focu...
Photograph

Men Working in a Field

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Description: Ten men are working in a field. They are bending over and digging with shovels.
Photograph

Field Work at Luke's Nursery

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Description: Slightly elevated view of plants supported with stakes in a field. There is a water tower in the background on top of a hill on the right. People are worki...
Historical Object

143 - Campers Working in Farm Field

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. In one, a number of campers are kneeling, working in a farmer's field. A tractor and line of tr...
Photograph

Binder and Threshing

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Description: View across field towards three men operating a binder and threshing machinery pulled by a team of four horses.
Photograph

Men Harvesting

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Description: View across field towards four men standing in a field and holding tools in a recently reaped field.
Photograph

Workers Separating Rice from Stalks

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa...
Photograph

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.
Painting

Trabajando en el Campo (Working in the Fields)

Date: 1998
Description: This scene was painted by Seferina Contreras Klinger from memories of her grandmother, Aurelia M. Contreras, and her uncle, Fidel Contreras, who worked pic...
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Binder in a Field

Date: 1900
Description: View down slope of hill towards a man standing in a field and working near a man who is using a horse-drawn binder in a field. A valley and hills are in th...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a large hat is sitting on one of four horses drawing a horse-drawn binder in a field. Two women and a child are standing at the back of the b...
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
Photograph

Two Men Using Horse-Drawn Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards two men using horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. Two men are in a carriage on the left near one of the binders. A group of...
Photograph

Manila Plantation

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people posing in front of a stone wall at a Manila plantation at the edge of a field with horses.
Photograph

People Harvesting with Hand-Scythes

Date: 1900
Description: Men harvesting in a field with hand-scythes near a man driving a ox-drawn binder behind them.
Photograph

Mr. Louis Bertrand with Fleet of McCormick-Deering 15-30 Tractors and Harvester-Threshers

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Description: Mr. Louis Bertrand standing in front of his fleet of twelve McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractors and twelve McCormick-Deering No. 11 harvester-threshers. Men s...

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