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Cultivating Cotton Field with McCormick Farmall Super MD Tractor

Date: 1953
Description: View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ...
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Harvesting Wheat with International 8-16 Tractor and Binders

Date: 06 14 1921
Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre...
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African American Farmers with Horse-Drawn Plows

Date: 1918
Description: Two African American farmers in a field operating horse-drawn walking plows.
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Farm Worker Loading Cotton into Trailer

Date: 1942
Description: Farm worker dumping cotton from an International Harvester cotton picker into a trailer pulled by a Farmall M tractor.
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Amzie Moore, Julian Bond, and Others

Date: 1963
Description: Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, Willie Peacock, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe on Steptoe's farm.
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Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders Gathering Firewood

Date: 05 07 1955
Description: Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders of Madison gathering firewood for cooking lunch during a one day Roundup of the Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Intermediates of Dist...
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Men Harvesting Grain in Field

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Description: Group of men harvesting grain with two McCormick grain binders drawn by horses or mules. In the background are farm buildings and stacks of grain.
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Three Men Harvesting Grain with Mule-Drawn Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men harvesting grain. One man is operating a grain binder, another man is standing near him, and a third man is sitting on one of the mules. In the b...
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Powered Hay Press

Date: 1914
Description: Men bale hay using an IHC hay press or baling press.
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"One-Mule Agriculture Method"

Date: 1914
Description: A group of farmers use mules to plow a field near a dirt road. A farm building and electrical or telephone poles are in the background.
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Man with Plow and Mule

Date: 1914
Description: A man is using a mule to pull a walking plow through a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance.
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Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou...
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McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Side view of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick twine grain binder in a field.
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Bernard Arms on a Farm

Date: 05 19 1929
Description: Bernard Arms stands atop a post on a farm.
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Tractor on Montgomery Farm

Date: 1924
Description: An umbrella is shading a man while he is driving a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?)tractor and disc harrow through a field.
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Lewis and Otis Arms

Date: 1957
Description: Lewis Arms (left, wearing a hat) poses with his arm around his uncle Otis Arms, probably at Bernard Arms's farm. There is a woman in a field walking away i...
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Men with Horse-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Men with a horse-drawn mower in a field. One man is working with a hand implement in a pile of hay, and another is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in the...
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Group of Men Posing in Field with Three Grain Binders

Date: 1895
Description: A large group of men, mostly African American, posing in a field with three McCormick grain binders. Each binder is being operated by a man and is pulled b...
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Cultivating Cotton

Date: 05 1902
Description: Carlos Christian cultivating a field for cotton. He is posing while holding a plow which is hitched to a mule. Pine trees are running along the perimeter o...

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