Agricultural Labor in Historical Context

Black and white images depict agricultural workers in various settings, including onion and celery fields, capturing a historical farming atmosphere.

Sugar beet workers, Treasure County, Montana 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Topping onions in a 700 acre field, Rice County, Minnesota 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Setting out rows of celery, Sanford, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Sugar beet workers, Treasure County, Montana 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Soldier Creek Gardening - Insect Control. 1900 - 1960.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Planting the Seed. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. 1949-. Photographs

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Henry Shoop, Irrigator, Showing How to Irrigate. Original caption: Miscellaneous (Henry Shoop, irrigator, showing how to irrigate).. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Mexican cantaloupe pickers. Gang labor. Imperial Valley, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Transit and Rod Surveying Laterals at Soldier Creek. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

By storm teared fields of tobacco plantation Boeloe Tjina on Sumatra. Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

Farming (Planting). 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Two Men Standing in a Field. 1936-01-01T00:00:00.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Harvesting 1960

Farming (Poisoning Potatoes). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Agriculture, Cooperative, Farms, Harvesting machinery

Young spinach in rows. Truck farm, Tom Green County, near San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Red spruce transplants, planted fall 1936, transplanted spring 1939, Baraniuk Field, north side of Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., July 14, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Filipino field gang in lettuce. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. Filipinos work in lettuce but not in peas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Brawley, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Men working at Dalworthington Gardens, Texas 1935 - 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Rolling bleaching paper used to keep celery stalks white, Sanford, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Sowing sugar cane on the plantation of sugar company Nieuw Tersana, Cheribon, former Dutch East Indies, c. 1890 - c. 1911 photograph Sowing sugar cane on the plantation of sugar company Nieuw Tersana, Cheribon, former Dutch East Indies. Several people are working on processing the country and sowing. Ceribon paper. photographic support gelatin silver print

Potato digger, Rio Grande County, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Farming (Clearing Field). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Cotton picking in south Texas. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas, Agricultural laborers, Cotton picking, Cotton pickers, Cotton

Elsevier photo collection. Tobacco plantation tandem (east coast Sumatra). February 1925. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. N.V. Culture me. "Alo" - Ransiki. Left lettuce planting. Right: Leeks. 1958. Guinea, Ransiki

Planting season 1940

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi, Plantations, Agricultural laborers

Description: Under the Colombo Plan, instruction is being given in better farming methods. Here a U.K. built Howard Rotovator with a David Brown Tractor is in use cultivating wet paddy fields in Madras. Location: Madras, India Date: 1950-1960 india, asia, madras, asiathroughalens

Gathering cabbage. Imperial County, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County

Checking for alfalfa. California. 1935. Photographs. 1935. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Farms

Check row planted cotton. Touchberry Plantation, Issaquena County, Mississippi. This method, long used in corn in order to permit cross cultivation, eliminates as much as two thirds of the usual hand hoeing costs. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Issaquena County, Cotton plantations, Cotton, Farming

Soldier Creek Lateral Irrigation Ditch. 1900 - 1960.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Red pine seedlings, planted fall 1937, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., June 16, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Young sugar beet worker, Treasure County, Montana 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Elsevier photo collection. Production stroke 1941: winter potato harvest Betuwe swing. rappe hands daily Betuwe weather harvested potatoes. beeps baskets. September 1941. Betuwe

Girl potato picker. The twine she carries is for sewing potato sacks. Rio Grande County, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Leland, Plantations, Farming, Agricultural machinery

White pine transplants, planted spring 1937, transplanted spring 1939, Baraniuk Field, north side of Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., July 14, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Farming (Workers in Field). 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, work, chicken carts. undated

Clearing land which will be used for truck farming. San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Farming (Planting). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Pitching alfalfa from the wagon into the thresher near Littlefork, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Littlefork, Minnesota , Koochiching County

Nurseries: Planting Stock - Michigan. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Agriculture. undated. Guinea

Topping sugar beets, Adams County, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Outskirts of Salinas, California. Father and son planting potatoes. These people are lettuce workers, migrants from Southwest. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Farming, Croplands

Separating goats to be shown from these which will wait until later, ranch of rehabilitation borrower in Kimble County, Texas. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Kimble County

Farming (Garden Destroyed by Grasshoppers). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Nursery Work: Seed Beds - Wisconsin. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Farming (Field). 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulare County, Harvesting machinery, Farms, Agriculture, Cooperative

Mexican cantaloupe pickers. Gang labor. Imperial Valley, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Tree planting. Black River Falls land use project, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Black River Falls, Wisconsin , Jackson County

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Ontario, Oregon , Malheur County, Agricultural laborers, Croplands

FAP 30-E. Original caption: FAP 30-E, looking east from same point that exposure No. 2 was taken. State: Puerto Rico.

Migrant agricultural worker picking potatoes near Shafter, California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Potatoes

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Cultivating two-year-old guayule shrubs. For the first two years in the fields the shrubs are cultivated frequently to keep down weeds and break up the soil which crusts easily 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County

Overseer in Veld, Anonymous, c. 1900 - 1919 photograph A European supervisor standing in a field with young planting sugar cane. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca. 1900-1919. Comal photographic support Comal

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old guayule plants. At two years, the guayule contains about nine percent rubber of dry weight. To supply the emergency needs for rubber, these shrubs would have to be planted closer 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County

Cotton picking, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi, Agricultural laborers, Plantations, Day laborers

Farm Workers Victory Festival, June 1942. Woodville FSA Farm Workers Community, host to Arvin, Shafter and Tulare communities at the June 14, 1942 "Victory Festival," had the only cooperative garden project of the four camps. Camp shelter occupants made. 1942. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Woodville, California , Tulare County

Farming (Field). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Description: West Indies. 'Sugar in the West Indies - General Pictures. Workers pause in their cane cutting to prepare a picnic meal'. Photograph No.: D. 48495. Official West Indies photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Location: West Indies Date: 1960 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. N.V. Culture me. "Alo" - Ransiki. construction grass weedy ground t.b.v. vegetable cultivation. vegetables, leguminoes ground, cocoa planted. 1958. Guinea, Ransiki

Transplanting Beds. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Tree Planting Stock - Packing/ Baling. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Hop pickers, Yakima County, Washington. Practically all hops in the U.S. States are grown in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. In 1940 Oregon grew forty-seven percent of the Coast production 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County

Picture from photo album associated Ansgar Betulander. Harvest of beets.

Field construction in Veneto, wine culture 21.5.18. Partly these are recordings that can not be assigned directly to the IsonzoFront, but for admission from the conquered Venetian areas

Loading carrots in the field near Holtville, California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Holtville, California , Imperial County, Agriculture, Agricultural laborers, Crops

Range Improvement - Seeding - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

After the beets are pulled, the soil is knocked off before topping. Adams County, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Farming. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Agricultural laborers

White pine transplants, planted fall 1936, transplanted spring 1939, Baraniuk Field, south side of Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., July 13, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Original caption: "Misc. Farming". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Range Improvement - Seeding - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Cultivating corn, central Ohio. 1938 - 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Farming (School Garden). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Cutting the corn on the Miller farm near West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. See general caption 57 and 58. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Carlton, Oregon , Yamhill County, Farms, Corn

Partial Cutting - Selection Cutting. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Grays Harbor County, Farms, Farming, Subsistence farming

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Coahoma County, Farms, Agriculture, Cooperative

Dumb bog at 45x400. Preparation before track building.

Cotton Field. A.R. Launey & Rudolph H. Goebel

Nursery Work: Seed Beds - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Farming (Field). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Coahoma County, Farms, Agriculture, Cooperative

Farming (Clearing Field). 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Sewing a sack of potatoes, Rio Grande County, Colorado 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce. Imperial Valley, California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agriculture

'Cane Cutting', c1930. Artist: Unknown.

Vintage Photograph. Long shot of a farmer sowing cotton with tractor in Texas cotton field.

Upland rice. Hoeing rice. 1868 - 1900. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. African Americans

Farming (Field). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

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