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Background imageMechanisation Collection: Fuel tank on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Fuel tank on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Fuel tank on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. ['J.H. Aldridge & Co. "Standard" Tractor Fuel. We use Farmall Tractors and Other McCormick-Deering Equipment']

Background imageMechanisation Collection: The threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Threshing oats, Clayton, Indiana, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Threshing oats, Clayton, Indiana, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Threshing oats. Clayton, Indiana

Background imageMechanisation Collection: The threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

Background imageMechanisation Collection: The threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Delta cooperative farm, Hillhouse, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station, 1938

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station, 1938
One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station. "In 1934 I had four renters, and I didn't make anything

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractor on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractor on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor on Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractors on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractors on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractors on Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractor driver, Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractor driver, Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land, Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi Delta, 1937

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land, Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi Delta, 1937
The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta, Aldridge Plantation

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: The cotton lands of Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

The cotton lands of Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The cotton lands of Ellis County, Texas, are well adapted to tractor farming but the houses of the farmer tenants stand empty

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
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

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractors cultivating cotton, Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi, 1937

Tractors cultivating cotton, Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractors cultivating cotton. Twenty-two tractors have replaced 130 tenant families on the Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractor and integrated four-row cultivator, Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi, 1937

Tractor and integrated four-row cultivator, Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi, 1937
Tractor and integrated four-row cultivator, does the work of eight men and eight mules. Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Dog run cabins of the Mississippi Delta. This plantation has been mechanized and these cabins abandoned

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Houses dot the fields, abandoned, Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi, 1937

Houses dot the fields, abandoned, Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Houses dot the fields, abandoned before the march of the tractor. Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractor and operator, Navarro, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractor and operator, Navarro, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor and operator. Navarro, Texas

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Farm owner near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farm owner near Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm owner near Memphis, Texas. He says, "I'd rather have renters than tractors on my place. I oppose the tractors. It puts too many off the land

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Check row planting of cotton, Mississippi Delta near Greenville, Mississippi, 1936

Check row planting of cotton, Mississippi Delta near Greenville, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Check row planting of cotton. A new process which has been long used in corn which practically eliminates need for hand labor at chopping season

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed... Kern County, California, 1939

Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed... Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer at edge of field. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed... Kern County, California, 1939

Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed... Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer at edge of field. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed... Kern County, California, 1939

Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed... Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer at edge of field. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Large-scale, mechanized farming - potato planter, Kern County, California, 1939

Large-scale, mechanized farming - potato planter, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer... Kern County, CA, 1939

Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer... Kern County, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading bins of potato planter with fertilizer and seed from trailer at edge of field. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Large-scale, mechanized farming - potato planter, Kern County, California, 1939

Large-scale, mechanized farming - potato planter, Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants potatoes... Kern County, CA, 1939

Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants potatoes... Kern County, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Cultivating potato-fields, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939

Cultivating potato-fields, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
West side of San Joaquin Valley, California. Caterpillar diesel type tractor is common in California. Only very large-scale operations can afford this type. Cultivating potato-fields

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Cultivating potato field, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cultivating potato field, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivating potato field. California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Cultivating potato-fields, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939

Cultivating potato-fields, west side of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
West side of San Joaquin Valley, California. Caterpillar diesel type tractor is common in California. Only very large-scale operations can afford this type. Cultivating potato-fields

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Harrowing a 2, 000 acre wheat field, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, California, 1937

Harrowing a 2, 000 acre wheat field, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Harrowing a 2, 000 acre wheat field which is allowed to fallow alternate years. Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Mechanical potato digger in the field, Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mechanical potato digger in the field, Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mechanical potato digger in the field. Shafter, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractors with pneumatic tires are replacing mules on the Delta plantations, Arkansas, 1939

Tractors with pneumatic tires are replacing mules on the Delta plantations, Arkansas, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractors with pneumatic tires are replacing mules on the Delta plantations. Arkansas

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Mechanical potato digger near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mechanical potato digger near Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mechanical potato digger near Shafter, California

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows, Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows, Shafter, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
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

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Resident of Longview Homesteads in sawmill, Longview, Washington, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resident of Longview Homesteads in sawmill, Longview, Washington, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resident of Longview Homesteads in sawmill. Longview, Washington

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Ex-tenants, now day laborers, Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Ex-tenants, now day laborers, Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

Background imageMechanisation Collection: This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years... Ellis County, Texas, 1937

This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years... Ellis County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This man was a tenant on the same farm for eighteen years. He has six children. This year he was forced into status of day laborer on the same farm

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Industrialized agriculture, from Texas farmer to migratory worker in California, Kern County, 1938

Industrialized agriculture, from Texas farmer to migratory worker in California, Kern County, 1938
Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in California. Kern County

Background imageMechanisation Collection: All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

Background imageMechanisation Collection: All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

Background imageMechanisation Collection: All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

All-crop harvesting, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Along the main travel artery through San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S. 99, 1938

Along the main travel artery through San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S. 99, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Along the main travel artery through San Joaquin Valley, California, U.S. 99. [Pacific Tractor & Equipment Corporation - equipment for sale or for rent - used tractor parts]

Background imageMechanisation Collection: Tractor in cotton, near Corsicana, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractor in cotton, near Corsicana, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractor in cotton. Near Corsicana, Texas



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