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Agricultural workers picking cranberries, Cape Cod, Mass., 1905-1915

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1905-1915

Location Note

Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass: Cape Cod: General: Unmounted

GUSN

GUSN-189888

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Description

Agricultural workers pick cranberries in a bog on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

labor
bogs
workers
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Project number HNE0031

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0520.0020.004

Image Dimensions

6 10/16 x 8 15/16 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Cape Cod (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [peninsula]

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

African American men
cranberries
Agricultural laborers
Work

Accruals Note

Included in the Boston African Americana Project.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass: Cape Cod: General: Unmounted

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