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Farm in southern U.S. ... Louisiana? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 107,766 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, St. Croix (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA, Natchitoches, La. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 32 favorites
- 88,688 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA, Natchitoches, La. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 24 favorites
- 84,566 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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FSA borrower? in a sugar-cane field, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 49 favorites
- 77,383 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 29 favorites
- 76,062 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 21 favorites
- 71,160 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 34 favorites
- 64,619 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Growers' Association, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 58 favorites
- 61,869 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pile them for curing (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 39 favorites
- 58,476 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Wheat farm, Walla Walla, Washington (LOC)
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- 58,209 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho (LOC)
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- 17 favorites
- 54,560 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 44 favorites
- 53,164 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Farm Security Administration borrower plowing his garden with one of the few plows used on the island, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands (LOC)
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- 26 favorites
- 49,930 views
- Date taken: 1939
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FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 62 favorites
- 48,359 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Small farms in the southwest, Puerto Rico (LOC)
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- 12 favorites
- 46,182 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Pinto beans, main crop at Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 6 favorites
- 45,358 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Harvesting sugar cane in a burned field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico. Burning the sugar cane gets rid of the dense leaves and makes cutting the unharmed stalks easier (LOC)
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- 13 favorites
- 44,600 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Farm Security Administration farmers working in a sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. This is part of an FSA cooperative (LOC)
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- 7 favorites
- 42,824 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Sugar cane fields on the north-west part of the island, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands (LOC)
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- 34,643 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 23,043 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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