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• Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested (LOC)

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  • 60 comments
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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• [Man shovelling ears of dried corn from wagon through feed store window] (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1942
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Jim Norris, homesteader, cutting a head of cabbage, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • 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 barn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)

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  • 17 favorites
  • 62,057 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Low flying planes from which dust or insecticide is spread onto crops by men who "follow the season" up the east coast, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 36 favorites
  • 58,577 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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  • 39 favorites
  • 58,476 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Jack Whinery and Jim Norris, homesteaders, looking at roots of stalk of corn, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • 52,922 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Harvesting new corn from the field of Jim Norris, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • 50,570 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Bean field [and canning factory] Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Son of Jim Norris, homesteader, tying corn into bundles, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

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  • 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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• Sugar cane land, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Burning a field of sugar cane, vicinity of Guanica. This destroys the leaves and makes it easier to cut the cane (LOC)

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  • 45,690 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Sugar cane land, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • 18 favorites
  • 44,397 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Crane at a "central" gathering place for sugar cane crop, vicinity of San Sebastian, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
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• Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day ... Location: Comanche County ... Oklahoma (LOC)

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  • 6 comments
  • 103 favorites
  • 42,042 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-09-14
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• [Grading and packing onions, Rice County, Minnesota] (LOC)

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  • 7 comments
  • 19 favorites
  • 41,796 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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• Agriculture in the Virgin Islands? (LOC)

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  • 10 favorites
  • 38,496 views
  • Date taken: 1939
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