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Photos of Ag. workers around Kings County

Black and white photos of agriculture machinery in Hanford and in Kings county.

Women are shown packing grapes at the J. D. Martin Ranch on Road 172, north of Ivanhoe in Tulare County, CA, in 1953.

These apple snitchers are shown at the Ira Blossom orchard on the South Fork in Three Rivers, CA, in 1894. Pictured, left to right on the ground, are Lizzie Alles Hicks (Mrs. A. E. Hicks, later of Visalia), Charley Blossom and his dog, Indian Scout…

Redbanks Orchard Company in Tulare County, CA, made early use of this motorized crop duster.

The Cutting of the Watermelon in Tulare County, CA, involved participants (left to right) George Eitel, Henry Slocum, William "Dutch Bill" Mehrtens, unknown, "Dad" Hartley, W. A. Sims, Dan Overall, L. V. Nanscowen, unknown, Judge Wheaton Gray,…

This ranch scene shows rake wheels for hay rakes in field in Visalia, CA.

This man is disking the cover crop in an olive grove at the Harold Shawl Ranch near Woodlake, CA.

Mother and daughter weigh in as their cotton sacks are weighed in a Tulare county field, in the 1940s.

A mechanical harvester picks cotton in a field in Tulare County in the 1940s..