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Hand Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards people hand harvesting.
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Group of People with Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view of a group of people working in a field. A Farmall B tractor is pulling a 12-row power celery planter on the Orange Lake Muck Farms. Approxim...
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Harvesting Hay by Hand

Date: 
Description: Two people are in a field, bending over and harvesting hay by hand.
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Harvesting Grain by Hand in Mexico

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Several people harvest grain by hand, while two men on horses look on. All the men wear sombreros; the men on horses wear suits, while the harvesters wear...
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Mexican Workers in Field

Date: 06 29 1928
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...
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People Working in a Field

Date: 1910
Description: People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food.
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Harvesting Wheat by Hand

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people working in a field harvesting wheat by hand. Some of the workers are using a sickle.
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Group of Workers in Field

Date: 05 29 1928
Description: A large group of people, men, women, and children, are posing in a field near a large stack of hay.
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
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...
Photograph

Crates of Cranberries

Date: 1931
Description: A wagon and crates full of cranberries sitting in the shade in a field. A group of people harvesting cranberries are in the background.
Print

G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
Photograph

Manila Plantation

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people posing in front of a stone wall at a Manila plantation at the edge of a field with horses.
Photograph

Rice Shocking

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in a rice field, where they have been shocking the rice. A woman sits in a horse-drawn carriage, and in front of her, a you...
Photograph

Man Driving Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 08 20 1926
Description: View across field towards a man driving a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering binder in a field. Two people are working nearby and gathering bundles of grain. In...
Photograph

Farmers Threshing Grain

Date: 10 05 1928
Description: Elevated view of farmers threshing grain in a field with a belt-driven McCormick all-steel thresher run by a Farmall tractor. One person is working inside ...
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Harvesting by Hand (Copy of Painting The Gleaners)

Date: 
Description: Women are bending over in a field, harvesting by hand. In the background people are working near large haystacks and a horse-drawn wagon. Lantern slide.
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Picking Hops

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking hops. The hops are being put into large wooden baskets. In the center several people are pouring the contents of on...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene: four people in the fields of Mexico operating...
Poster

Movie Poster for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed.
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Tents at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery.

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