Farm Family Picking Tomatoes, 1945

Farm Family Picking Tomatoes, 1945

Farm family picking tomatoes. The entire family helped with farm work in the 1940s. Even the dogs were put to work. Warren County, 1945.

Photographer: Pete Wettach. Used with permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

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