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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | International power unit powers an irrigation system. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 09 17 1937 |
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| Description: | A.C. White, contractor, stands near a rotary water well rig powered by an International P-12 power unit mounted on a truck. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ... |
| Date: | 03 1932 |
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| Description: | Men use shovel to load boulder pieces, removed from the walls of Black Canyon with dynamite, into the back of an International truck during the constructio... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A team of cranberry harvesters work in a line across a flooded cranberry marsh. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Three men, in waders, harvesting cranberries by hand with cranberry rakes. In the background other harvesting teams are visible, as well as crates of harve... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Two men, in waders, posing with cranberry harvesting equipment and freshly harvested berries. The berries have been loaded onto small barges. |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man working to harvest cranberries. As the berries are picked from the bog they are deposited in a small barge that moves along with the harve... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is operating a horse-drawn mower in what appears to be a setting in the deep south, with Spanish moss hanging from the Cyprus trees and a body of wat... |
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