Historic Agricultural Labor

Vintage images of laborers harvesting strawberries, cotton, and potatoes. The scenes illustrate agricultural practices in earlier decades with a nostalgic touch.

Three farmers in a cabbage field

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Pardes. Transport of oranges per donkey car on a citrus plantation at pardes. January 1, 1948. Israel, pardes

Agriculture. 1947.

The Camargue - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Farm Machinery - New American Farm Machinery Tested in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forest layout, nurseries, garden tools, women. undated

Photo collection Government information service. DIAS Keukenhof Continuous series of 29. Undated. Lisse

Poll photo collection. Potato harvest. Women are busy gathering the potatoes in the field. January 1, 1964. Israel

Farmers during sowing, Tuscany, italy 1920 1930.

12/31/1933. In the Valencian orchard - orange harvest.

Anefo photo collection. Spraying hyacinths. April 26, 1947

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Grape picker at work. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

Vintage Photograph. Vegetable farming on Long Island Farm.

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Grape pickers at work. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

November 1917. From the Sánchez Dalp agricultural holding. Dry corn. Photo: son of Pérez Romero.

Anefo photo collection. The Westland. Tomato plants, ready to be planted. These are placed in baking to be transported to the place where they are planted. The tomato plants were grown in a grape greenhouse on the mixed company. This is an unheated grape floor. May 27, 1946. Westland, South Holland

Experiments in Agricultural Productivity in Sologne. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Grape carrier with pestle at a cockpit with grapes. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. forest processing, tree trunks, shrubs, grounds. undated

Hybrid Corn - Experimental Farm at Asile St-Leon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, tillage, tools, trays. undated

Skiopticone image. Peat drying.

Man inspecting shade tobacco in field, Cuba. Tobacco plantations,Cuba,1890-1920.

Vintage Photograph. Farmer weeding sweet corn.

Poll photo collection. Man who inspects a tobacco plant. January 1, 1964. Israel

Farmers during sowing, Tuscany, italy 1920 1930.

Farm Machinery - New American Farm Machinery Tested in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Mexican Migrants & Immigration

12/31/1964. Fumigation against "Prays" in an olive grove in Jaén with a Holder tractor.

Skiopticone image. Peat preparation. Peat drying.

Rice harvesting in the countryside of Vercelli 1958

Anefo photo collection. Damage agriculture due bad weather; Farmer venep ruling potato field. August 6, 1985

Vintage Photograph. A McCormick two row cotton picker at work harvesting cotton.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Agricultural machinery and equipment, shears, horses. undated

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. original ferguson woer. 1962

In Bulgaria, the farmer plowing even with the primitive hand plow, which has been preserved in unchanged form through the centuries. August 5, 1935. (Photo by Presse-Photo).

Zionist colonies on Sharon. Borochov. Girls' farm, potting plants. 1920, Israel

Cotton picking. Armenia, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).

Grape harvest in Monferrato hills 1955

Vintage Photograph. Combining wheat in Nebraska.

Farmer cutting Tobacco in Field, Kentucky, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1940

Historical Waterfowl Survey. Creator: Schmidt, Rex Gary. Descriptive Note: L-R: A. "Jim" Robinson of Denver, Colorado, John Eadie of Maryville, Tennessee, and James Johnson of ElCentro, California, U.S. Game Management Agents quickly sex and band captured ducks while Labrador retrievers, "Luke" and "Rollie" look on. Locatality. Subjects: Historical; Waterfowl Survey; Canada; Banding; Nets; Traps. . 1998 - 2011.

Unloading coal in Västervik.

Field worker, farmers, agriculture, ca. 1955, near Freiburg, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Sprinkle fertilizer. April 10, 1947

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Construction of a new kibbuts. Members of the Building Plow of Mother Cavebuts Yavne lay barbed wire extinguishers around a newly built kibbuts. January 1, 1948. Israel, Javne

Anefo photo collection. Sugar beet and potato harvest in Zeeland complicates through heavy rainfall; Sjarigy fields at Goes. October 25, 1974. Zeeland

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. extraction, sowing and harvesting crops, cabbage, workers, transports, boats. November 1957

Vintage Photograph. Irrigating a field of vegetable crops.

Negroes at work in a Cuban sugar plantation.. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Blacks , Cuba, Cuba, Plantations , Cuba, Sugar plantations, Agricultural laborers

Work in the vineyard.

Japanese Americans on Sisal Plantation in Hawaii ca. 1915. Japanese emigrated to Hawaii and the American west coast from 1885 until 1907 when the United States and Japanese 'Gentleman's Agreement ' effectively ended Japanese immigration.

Soestdijk, --- Soesterstr. away. recto

Anefo photo collection. unknown . First bulb fields are in bloom, work in the bulb fields. March 11, 1959

Historical Waterfowl Survey. Creator: Goldman, Luther C. Goldman. Descriptive Note: Taking core samples of earth to check for pesticides WATERFOWL SURVEY (Early 1960's). Subjects: Historical; Pesticides; Waterfowl Survey; Sampling; Samples; Monitoring. . 1998 - 2011.

Farmer. 1946.

Vintage photograph. Case Model "DC" Tractor pulling a Case Corn Picker picking corn on the farm of Orville Liffick of Jasonville, Indiana

RECOLECCION DE REMOLACHA - FOTO AÑOS 70.

Binding Wheat Sheaves, Peter Henry Emerson, Searle, & Rivington Sampson Low Marston, 1883 - 1888.

Vintage Photograph. A farmer collecting eggs. Frame 2.

United States: c. 1890 A farmer weeds his crop with a plow drawn by two horses or mules.

Vinyards around town of Kientzheim, France

Poll photo collection. Israel - Nir Elyahu. Kibbets Nir Elyahu. Kibbechetziner fills a bucket with water and fertilizer with a new planting of fruit trees. January 1, 1963. Israel, Nir Elyahu

Harvesting at Mount Barton, Devon, England, 1942 Rows of corn stooks stretch across this field into the distance, waiting to be collected by the already well-laden horse-drawn hay cart that is making its way slowly towards the camera in the late evening sun. This photograph was probably taken at Hollow Moor, Devon.

Vintage Photograph. Market gardening - harvesting.

Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Spraying the vines against fungal diseases and insects. April 1, 1955. Bad Salzig, Germany, West Germany

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. extraction, sowing and harvesting crops, bulbs. May 1957. Hillegom

Anefo photo collection. Police amount hemp plants greenhouses Aalsmeer. September 10, 1986. Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Carrier with harvesting tub in the vineyard. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

USA, Washington, Seattle, close up of man's hands mending fishing net

Tobacco growing. 1920-1930.

Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Binding the vines. April 1, 1955. Bad Salzig, Germany, West Germany

Vintage Photograph. Adding medication to turkey waterer.

Vintage photograph. Mechanical application of fertilizer near the base of the plant.

12/31/1929. California. In the orange harvest. In the Image, a farmer with a harvesting bag so as not to hurt the fruit.

Pest control, approx. 1945 to 1955, surroundings of Freiburg, Germany, Europe

Poll photo collection. Moselle: viticulture. Grape pickers at work. 1959. Germany, Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

Harvest, ca. 1910, Farmers harvesting in a field, Black and white photo with rural and historical flair, Historical photo

Steel engraving, motif with tobacco harvest, detail, historical share, Tobacco Products Corporation, Virginia, USA, 1929, North America

Track maintenance work, Sköldinge - Katrineholm

Anefo photo collection. Minister Bot, De Keukenhof in Lisse opened, in the greenhouses. March 30, 1965. Lisse

Hybrid Corn - Visit to Mr. Norbert Peymiron at Lyss. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. A country worker engaged turfsteken. undated. Deurne (Noord-Brabant)

Reporting in the conductor post about a bus driver at the traffic company Grängesberg-Oxelösund railways, TGOJ. Here is used by the earth.

1950s AFRICAN AMERICAN SHARE CROPPERS PICKING COTTON BY HAND USA

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule "worms" 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County

Hybrid Corn - Experimental Farm at Asile St-Leon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, soil measurements. undated

Grape harvesting, monferrato acquese, piedmont, italy, 1955.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, machines, tools. undated

Japan, harvest rice near kyoto, 1959.

Photo by Josef Scaylea. Vintage Photograph. Inspecting flowers on bush in greenhouse.

Anefo photo collection. On the Keukenhof, first bulbs already above the ground in heated greenhouse. February 20, 1963

Pickers in a peach orchard, Delta County, Colorado. 1940.

The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialization, and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess

Anefo photo collection. unknown . On the Keukenhof, first bulbs already above the ground in heated greenhouse. February 20, 1963

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. extraction, sowing and harvesting crops, tomatoes, horticulture, centers, workers. undated. Limburg, Venlo

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