Description: A photograph showing the harvesting of a crop in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F03_032_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The harvesting of grain in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F03_033_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with horse-drawn self-binder, near Streetsboro, Portage County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. A self-binder reaps and binds bales of wheat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00399
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Rural life; Harvesting; Farming
Places: Streetsboro (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harvesting on a farm near Mentor, Ohio, in Lake County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_012_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting
Places: Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows members of the Society of Separatists of Zoar harvesting crops in a field located at the northeast end of Zoar village. The older man pictured in the foreground is Michael Miller, the last Separatist who immigrated to Zoar from Germany. The Society of Separatists of Zoar were a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in 1817. Finding it difficult to make ends meet on their own, they formed a communal society in 1819 in which all members shared equally. After a few hard years, the group became solvent by helping build seven miles of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which passed through their lands. The canal enabled them to get their produce to market and allowed them to be financially successful. The Zoarites manufactured much of what they needed themselves. The village of Zoar, named for the Biblical city that Lot fled to from Sodom and Gomorrah, included grist mills, a wool factory, iron furnaces, a tannery, a foundry, garden, and store. After leader Joseph Bimeler (1778-1853) died, however, the group experienced a slow decline, since no one could match his business or spiritual leadership. Tourism helped keep the community afloat for a while, but in 1898, the society disbanded and its assets were divided. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00828
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Agriculture; Rural life; Harvesting
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows a group of men, women, and children of the Society of Separatists of Zoar harvesting wheat, with up-to-date harvesting tools for the period, on the northeast end of town. Jacob Ackerman, a trustee, is in the foreground. Led by Joseph Bimeler in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They would become known as the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1819. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_S02_A1_96
Subjects: Photography; Society of Separatists of Zoar; Religious Societies; Communal societies; Harvesting; Farm equipment; Farming
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harvesting potatoes in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_013_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph showing a Mexican migrant worker picking tomatoes on a farm in California, taken by Joe Munroe, 1960. Even with the advancement of modern harvesting techniques and technologies, handpicking tomatoes is often required for table-ripe tomatoes whose skin is thinner. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B30_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Agricultural laborers; Migrant agricultural laborers; Farm life; Tomatoes--Harvesting
Places: Imperial Valley (California)
 

Description: Hard labor coupled with long days and heat made for uncomfortable conditions when harvesting rice. A worker is pictured using baby powder to reduce the itch from the swirling chaff in the air, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1961. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F08_007
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Agricultural laborers; Rice--Harvesting;
Places: Colusa (California)
 

Description: A field of grain ready to be threshed in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_016_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Farmer taking a refreshing drink while harvesting in central Iowa, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1950. A second source identifies the image as a cowboy taking a drink in Arizona in 1965. Farmers were slow to see the prosperity of postwar American as the price for agricultural products remained low on the cost-of-living index. Such farmers only saw about 3 cents from a two dollar box of cereal. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B04_F16_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms; Harvesting
Places: Arizona; Iowa
 

Description: Dated March 1941, this photograph shows a man collecting maple sap on a farm in Geagua County, Ohio, near Chardon. Maple sugar is made from the sap of sugar or black maple trees. Harvesting is done in later winter when the sap stored in the roots begins to rise in early spring. The sap is boiled to the desired consistency. The United States is a leading producer of maple syrup, second only to Canada. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F05_002_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Harvesting; Maple syrup; Rural life
Places: Chardon (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)