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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Men cutting grain with cradles while other men gather it into bundles by hand. The scene is a re-enactment filmed in 1929 for the Fox-Hearst film "Romance ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p... |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers plant sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Getting ready to set out the young plants. This operation co... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of two men loading a horse-drawn manure spreader (possibly a Kemp) in a field. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Men and a young boy bale hay from a large haystack using an IHC hay press. On the left is a stack of finished hay bales. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Young man outside a barn pitching piles of manure. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip. Manure, J.A. Butler." |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Man working at cranberry cleaning machine. On both sides of the machine are stacks of crates used for storing cranberries. Under the machine is the plant d... |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | A large truckload of cranberries being unloaded into a large open storage tank. The truck has been lifted into the air on a large platform, and a woman sta... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are working with a horse-drawn mower and a horse-powered hay stacker in a field. Two men and a child are standing on a large stack of hay, and a horse-... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A young man is operating a horse-drawn hay rake in a field, while other men are raking by hand. There are large piles of hay scattered in the field. In the... |
| Date: | 06 23 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men using what appears to be a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to "pull stumps" in an orchard on the R.R. Robertson farm. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four agricultural laborers posing in a field. One of the men is sitting on a horse-drawn mower, and the other three men are holding rakes. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men with hand harvesting tools and an ox-drawn hay cart in a foreign field (possibly India?). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers standing in a field next to henequen or sisal plants, probably in Yucatan, Mexico. |
| 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... |
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