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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
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Filter: Subject of agricultural laborers
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers standing in a field next to henequen or sisal plants, probably in Yucatan, Mexico. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View across field towards men loading carts of cabbage onto boxcars. Caption reads: "Shipping Cabbage, Greenville, Wis." |
| Date: | 12 28 1906 |
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| Description: | Landscape photograph of the Fairchild grain elevator on a winter's day. There are workers steering two horse-drawn carts in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men transporting large bales of cotton in a warehouse or loading dock. |
| Date: | 10 30 1909 |
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| Description: | A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children are sitting and standing in a cranberry bog, with Castle Mound in the background. A number of crates are scattered throughout the... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry... |
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