A Young Man With a Cranberry Scoop

Cranberry Scoops greatly reduced the number of workers needed to harvest cranberries who picked the berries with their hands.

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Young Women picking Cranberries in the 30s

In October of 1938 Arthur Rothstein (Click Here)was the photographer who took the pictures in this collection. These photographs are from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection which form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. The Library of Congress makes these photographs available to the public and has files pf various sizes usually available for each picture.

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Workers pick cranberries in the Fenwick Bog

Whitesbog Village can viewed in the background.

Cranberry pickers in bog. Three-fourths of these workers are children. Most of the pickers are Italian families from So. Philadelphia. The head of the family is the only one who gets paid. Burlington County, New Jersey

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Cranberry Pickers with Village of Rome in the upper left hand corner of photograph?

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Child takes a drink of water with the Village of Rome in the background.

Cranberry Pickers Work in front of Suningive and the Darlington House.

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Smiling workers pick cranberries with a Padrone Supervising.

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Workers bring picked berries to stacked collection boxes.

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Child sitting in cranberry box at collection site.

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Suningive and Darlington House in the background.

The wagon on the left transports workers and the one on the right cranberry boxes that when full will be stored in the Cranberry Packing House. The tank on the second wagon probably carried drinking water for the workers. Click below on Packing House38 to see the building.

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