Historical Agricultural Labor

Black-and-white images depicting workers in fields using mechanical tools and traditional farming methods during the 1930s across agricultural landscapes.

Vintage Photograph. Cultivating half-grown cotton plants in a field.

Yuma County, Arizona. Sorting and grading lettuce in the field 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Yuma County

Mechanical potato digger in the field. Shafter, California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Shafter, California , Kern County, Farms, Agricultural laborers, Agriculture

Jewish colonies and settlements Commencing a Jewish settlement a camp Digging a trench. 1920, Middle East

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

Onion field workers, Rice County, Minnesota 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Labor contractor's crew at work in pea fields, Nampa, Idaho. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Nampa, Idaho , Canyon County

Negro and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in field near Muskogee, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Muskogee, Oklahoma , Muskogee County

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

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

Vintage Photograph. Cultivating half-grown cotton plants in a field.

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Meloland, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-American boy cultivating potatoes 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Rupert, Idaho , Minidoka 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

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

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

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

Drainage system at Nahr el Falek or Birket Ramadan Cucumber crops being harvested. Nahr el Falik. 1940, Israel

Migratory workers harvesting peas near Nipomo, California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Nipomo, California , San Luis Obispo County, Migrant agricultural laborers

Vintage Photograph. Strawberry picking in Sumner Washington.

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. General view of vineyards S.W. of Richon during grape picking. 1939, Israel, Richon le-Tsiyon

Soldier Creek Garden - People Working in Background. 1900 - 1960.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

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

Picking cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, September 1938.. 1938. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Arkansas, Cotton Pickers , United States, African Americans , Employment, African Americans , Arkansas, African American agricultural laborers

Elsevier photo collection. Horticultural school "House Lande" Rijswijk. undated. Rijswijk, South Holland

Original caption: "A field in cultivation. Indian cultivating his irrigated farm.". 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

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young Negroes drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Leland, Agricultural laborers, Farms, Plantations

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

Trabajador realizando limpieza de un viñedo. San Sadurní de Noya, Barcelona. Años 50.

Pea pickers coming into weigh master. 500 pea pickers in field of large-scale Sinclair Ranch, newly planted to peas. Near Calipatria, California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Calipatria, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers, Agriculture, Farms

Mexicans picking cantaloupes one mile north of the Mexican border. Imperial Valley, California. 6:00 a.m. This is highly skilled labor. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers

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

Farming (Harvesting 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

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

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

1930s NUMBER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS PICKING COTTON IN LARGE FARM FIELD NEAR MEMPHIS TENNESSEE USA

Farming (Potato Field). 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

Picking cotton, Lauderdale Co., Miss. 1935 1935. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Smith Nursery, red or Norway pine, four-year transplants, Ware, Mass., Oct. 28, 1936 : Parcel no. 210-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Vintage Photograph. Strawberry farming in Sato Strawberry farm in Arroyo Grande California.

Smith Nursery, red or Norway pine, four-year transplants, Ware, Mass., Oct. 28, 1936 : Parcel no. 210-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Nahalal. Girls' Agricultural Training School. Setting out seedlings. Girls working in the fields. 1920, Israel, Nahalal

Algot Holmberg & Söner's seed processing in Fiskeby.

Men Working in Field. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Vintage Photograph. Fertilizing and crop rotation in a Tabacco field in Maryland.

The Wonder Bean In England -- Picture taken at the Agricultural Experimental Farm at Denham, Bucks, shows workers attending young plants of the Soya Bean, which is undergoing experimental cultivation in England. This bean, produces an enormous number of by-products, such as oil, lycerine, etc. February 27, 1934. (Photo by Photopress).

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

Men in Plowed Field. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

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

Vintage Photograph. Harvesting Potatoes Sunderland Massachusetts.

Planting corn in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families. Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Hillhouse, Mississippi , Coahoma County, Farms, Agriculture, Cooperative

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

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

Guermantes, France , 1930 - Ile -de -France - Stéphane Passet - (September -October) (French - Guermantes , France). Animal transport, agriculture , breeding, work scene, rural life, harvest, cart, field, peasant, work clothing, vegetable, man, Transport, economic activity, daily life, clothing, human beings, Seine et Marne, Guermantes, agricultural workers tearing the beets

Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation client harvesting milo maize. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Manteca, California , San Joaquin County, Family farms, Assistance, Farming

Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Manteca, California , San Joaquin County, Family farms, Assistance, Farming

Cecil Beaton Photographs- Women's Horticultural College, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, 1943.

View of African American workers in a cotton field near Atlanta. Foreign and American Views. 1890. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgia, Atlanta (Ga.), Harvesting, African Americans, Cotton pickers

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Kota Nica test center. March 1954. Kota Nica, Guinea

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

Farming (Harvesting School 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

Anefo photo collection. Recordings of the new sugar beet harvest. 1945

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

Red 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

Vintage photograph. Field of Pascal Celery, Murray, Utah. Farming, agriculture

Coffee nursery with young trees for planting 1955. This coffee nursery in Karatina which started in 1949 hosts in 1957 more than 80,000 young trees.

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

Overtore in field at harvest. A European overseer and Indian workers standing in a field where sugar cane is felled. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal Sugar factory in the period ca. 1900-1919.

The Black Wax area of Texas is the outstanding cotton producing section of the western cotton belt. Near Georgetown, Texas. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Georgetown, Texas , Williamson County, Cotton

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

Irrigating land, El Indio, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , El Indio, Texas , Maverick County

Contour plowing on mechanized farms. Childress County, Texas Panhandle, Texas. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Childress County, Agriculture, Farm mechanization, Plowing

Soviet Kazakhstan -- Watering the collective farm cotton plantations in Southern Kazakhstan. Latest development in cotton growing is coloured cotton being in several tones.A collective cotton farm: Stalin achieved collectivisation by ruthless force. March 04, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Picking peas, labor contractor's crew. Nampa, Idaho. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Nampa, Idaho , Canyon County

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

Vintage Photograph. Workers picking tomatoes.

Description: Barbados. 'Native workers on a sugar cane plantation'. Photograph No FX 2604 D Ministry of Information hand stamp on the front of photograph. Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Fox Photos Limited copyright hand stamp appears on the reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1946 barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Farming (Spraying for Insects). 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

Vintage photograph. Tractor pulling three sugar beet cultivators in Tranquility, California.

James Elk Spraying Potatoes - Soldier Creek. 1900 - 1960.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Farming (Mr. Frog and Good Corn Field). 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

Description: Picking Peaches in the Niagara Peninsula. The Niagara Peninsula is one of the most important fruit producing areas in Canada. Location: Niagara Peninsula, Canada Date: 1963 trees, food, tractor, ontario, canada, fruit, farm, harvest, baskets, peaches, americas, 1963, harvesting, peachtrees, niagarapeninsula, fruitbelt

Harvest Color - Amish, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell

Spraying his 18000 vines at Ern Pearson Orchard, Chipping Norton. December 5, 1937.

Picking cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, September 1938. Vintage Historic Photography From the US Government Security Administration Collection 1930s. Photo Credit: Russell Lee.

Woman checking cauliflower growing beneath paper "hot caps" which protect the young plants from cold temperatures.

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

Vintage Photograph. Lettuce Farmers near Salinas California.

Hemlock transplants, planted spring 1936, transplanted spring 1938, Baraniuk Field, north side of Blue Meadow Road, Belchertown Nursery, Belchertown, Mass., July 13, 1939 : Parcel no. 208-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

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

Farming. 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

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

Skioptic image with motifs from the professional inspection in various workplaces. Betroid

Smith Nursery, white spruce transplants, Ware, Mass., Oct. 28, 1936 : Parcel no. 210-- , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, forestry, nurseries horticulture

Turkish farmer while plowing. .

Coast of Vauxrot, Cuffies, Aisne, France , 1917 - Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (May -July) (French - Côte de Vauxrot , Cuffies , Aisne , France). Factory , workshop, military uniform, ruins, front, bombardment, barbed wire, industry, man, army, Habitat , architecture, clothing, First World War, Economic Activitis, Human Starries, Society, France, Vauxrot (glassware) workers from the glassware picking up the barbed wire

Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. California. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Coachella Valley (Calif.), Migrant agricultural laborers, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

Hop pickers. Yakima County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County

Martha's Farm, Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia. Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. United States Virginia Campbell County Lynchburg, Farming, Men.

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