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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...
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Group Posed at Barn Raising

Date: 1891
Description: Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields...
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Trout Lake Nursery, First Furrow

Date: 05 1911
Description: View across field towards a number of men working to clear a field. There is a team of horses pulling a plow to create a furrow, with a pine forest in the ...
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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.
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...
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Stump Pulling

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Description: View across field towards a group of four men standing with a stump-pulling rig. Three horses on the left are pulling the tree stump.
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Jacob Plow

Date: 1910
Description: From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim...
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Men Pouring Concrete

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Description: Elevated view of workers putting in concrete to create an apron for the power dam they're building. Two men in suits are standing on a platform on the far ...
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Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...
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Men Loading Hemp Plants

Date: 1910
Description: View across field towards men loading bundles of hemp onto railroad transport cars.
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Three Men Posing with Parked Truck

Date: 1922
Description: View across dirt road towards three linemen posing in front of a truck that is parked along the side of the road. A power pole is attached horizontally in ...
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Trucks Used in Road Construction

Date: 07 25 1925
Description: View from side of road of a line of trucks on a road. There is a large piece of machinery in the background where men are working. In the background is a c...
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side...
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Griffith State Nursery

Date: 04 1938
Description: Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ...
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Seeding Trees

Date: 04 1938
Description: Two men are pushing an implement between guide ropes at the Central (now Griffith) State Nursery. The description on the reverse of the photograph explains...
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Foremen on Horses near Workers Harvesting Grain

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: View across field towards two foremen on horseback.
Photograph

Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Walking Plow

Date: 04 28 1928
Description: A man is holding onto a walking plow behind a team of two horses in a field.
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Spring-Time Project

Date: 04 11 1985
Description: Five men are working on a highway, placing tar and covering it with tissue. A line of cars are passing in the opposite lane. A field and farm buildings are...

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