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.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forest processing, workers, shrubs, work. undated

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Demony, sowing and harvesting crops, irrigation, NOP. May 1957

Collared intrastate migrant worker picking strawberries near Hammond, Louisiana By Russell Lee, 1903-1986, photographer Date 19390101.

Row of Tractors Riding Through Cotton Field on Plantation, Rear View, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, August 1940

ELOY DISTRICT, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA, NOVEMBER 1940 -- 'Mexican irrigator siphoning from ditch to field' Photo by Dorothea Lange

Coffee plantation. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, No. 126, Coffee plantations,Singapore,1890-1930, Harvesting,Singapore,1890-1930.

Worker removing weeds with a hoe on a rubber plantation in Guatemala. 1940.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Settlers (Manokwari). December 1953. Manokwari, Guinea

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

Farming (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

Instrumentation - Climate - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Harvesting Sweet Potatoes, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA, 1899

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

The long line of Texas. Near Dallas. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Dallas, Texas , Dallas County, Farms

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, harvesting. July 1947. North Brabant

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

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

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

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

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 (Indians and Corn). 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

Grape Pickers. August 18, 1949.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, harvesting. July 1947. North Brabant

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea, Indonesia. undated. New Guinea

Vintage photograph. Tractor pulling a chisel type cultivator in Vineyard

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. clapper garden intersection food crops Kladi E.D .. June 1959. Guinea

Cultivating a patch of cassava on the agricultural experiment plot. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Photographs. 1904. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Biography, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Farming, Vegetables

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

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

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

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

Picking cotton in Louisiana Date: 1887

Peasants cutting millet, near Yokohama, Japan, 1904. Artist: Underwood & Underwood

Vintage Photograph. Farmer clearing the last remaining crops from field in Long Island.

Husking corn, Camden County, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Picking Cucumbers From The Hydroponics Beds At Ascension Island.

Harvesting of cucumbers. chioggia. Veneto. Italy 1955.

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

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. farming Guinea hard company. fierce tropenzon woman busy day patjollen ground. December 1953. Guinea

Stoop Labor in Cotton Field, San Joaquin Valley, California; Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965); 1938; Gelatin silver print; 23.5 × 30 cm (9 1,4 × 11 13,16 in.)

Organic Smoked Sugar Beet plantation at Precy-sur-Oise, France owned by Monsieur Fauquert. Date: 1929

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

Elsevier photo collection. 1941 production stroke: winter potato harvest Betuwe swing. morning evening, farmers harvesting peaks. De Roochen Rapers action. October 1941. Betuwe

Group of workers harvesting beans in a field

Soft drink wagon in pea field picked by 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

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

Picking strawberries in field near Ponchatoula, Louisiana. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Ponchatoula, Louisiana , Tangipahoa Parish

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." 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

Tea in Ceylon. Planting out young tea plants in the nursery. July 7, 1945.

Vintage Photograph. Tobacco being cut on a farm near Ferndale Maryland.

Repairs on Lydda-Jerusalem railroad, Sept. 5, 1938, Israel, Lod

1950s ANONYMOUS MEN AND WOMEN PICKING COTTON IN FIELDS OUTSIDE OF MANAGUA NICARAGUA CENTRAL AMERICA

Other Project (Timber Cut). 1939-02-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Coffee plants on the plantation of Silo Sanen; Planting coffee.

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

Pea harvest. Large-scale industrialized agriculture on Sinclair Ranch. Imperial Valley, California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County, Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico), Agriculture, Harvesting

Poll photo collection. Wine strokes - Beaujolais. Grape picking in the vineyards of the Beaujolais. undated. Burgundy, France

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Woman at work on a banana plantation in Guadeloupe. October 1, 1955. Guadeloupe

industry of vallecrosia, clary, 1910-1920

Day's work done | Library of Congress

Vintage Photograph. Mr. K.G. Plumb examines a section of peanut plants.

Cotton picking scene. No. 390 | Library of Congress

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

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. N.V. Culture me. "Alo" - Ransiki. Vegetable growing. fight teasing vegetable cultivation comprehensive. people looking women looking caterpillars cabbage plant. 1958. Guinea, Ransiki

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old guayule plants. An acre of mature shrubs will yield from 1800 to 2500 pounds of rubber 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County

Sumatra indonesia, men engaged in tobacco field in various stages, Carl J. Kleingrothe, 1900 - 1920.

View of hop yard, pickers at work. Near Independence, Polk County, Oregon. See general caption number 45-1. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Independence, Oregon , Polk County, Agricultural laborers, Agriculture

Vintage Photograph. Community farming pictured in china.

Vintage photograph. Caterpillar diesel tractor pulls a KEF sprayer on the farm near Staplehurst England

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

The construction of a new railway vigor across Norrtullsgatan. Casting of bridge track.

Japanese Girls at Work in the Rice Fields - Grand Old Fuji-Yama in the Distance, Japan , Rice paddies, Farming, Agricultural laborers, Rice

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Woman at work on a banana plantation in Guadeloupe. October 1, 1955. Guadeloupe

Picking Cotton. Photographs, Illustrations. 1897. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. African Americans , History, African Americans , Biography

Freshly-plowed sugar beet field near King City. Shows large scale of farm operations in California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , King City, California , Monterey County, Farms, Sugar beet industry

Sueca (Valencian Community), September 1965. The cultivation of rice. In the image, the rice, already dry, ready on the threshing floor to be packaged and transported to the granary.

Vintage Photograph. Bringing in the grapes at a winery at Lagoa (Southern end of Portugal) The Algarva.

Vintage photograph. Workers cultivating a sugarcane field in Puerto Rico

Vintage Photograph. Farm at Arroyo Grande California shows Mexican laborers.

Day Laborers Hoeing Cotton Field, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, August 1940

Newly-arrived farmer examining sprouting corn. Vale-Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Malheur County

Greenhouse facilities, woman poses in the foreground. Växthusanläggningar, kvinna poserar i förgrunden.

Hop picker and basket. 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

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

Photo collection Government information service. DIAS Flower bulb fields. undated

Pe Tah Shig Making Use of His Surplus Seed Onions. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Agricultural trial station ManoK. 5 month rubber culture beds. November 1961. Manok, Guinea, Sentani

Farming (Harvesting). 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. Farmer dusting sweet corn field.

Young Children Day Laborers Picking Cotton, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, November 1939

Veld Met Hoge tobacco Planes, Ludwigsburg Plantation, Sumatra (high tobacco in Ludwigsburg-Estate).

Bergamot harvest in the countryside of Reggio Calabria, 1965.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Buildings, farms. August 1959. Haarlemmermeer

Land workers working on rice fields in the Dutch East Indies. Part of travel album with forty photos of the Dutch East Indies.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Student driver-mechanic "Duminised" field. teeth-e-eg trigger soil draws clay cries. undated. Guinea

Harvesting Indian River pineapples in Florida , Harvesting, Pineapples, Pineapple plantations

Man and child harvest soil crops on a field, approx. 1945 to 1955, near Freiburg, Germany, Europe

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, harvesting. July 1947. North Brabant

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