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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Muhammed Ali described J.B. Morris as 'a truly great man.' Morris graduated as a second lieutenant in the first black-officer class at Fort Des Moines in 1917 with other great officers.

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