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Laborer harvesting sweet potato crop - Homestead, Florida

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Image Number

FS864795

Date Note

Photographed on September 6, 1986.

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Collection

Folklife Collection.
Series 1577, Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey; no 41

Geographic Term

Homestead (Fla.)
Dade County (Fla.)

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Laborer harvesting sweet potato crop - Homestead, Florida

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Title

Laborer harvesting sweet potato crop - Homestead, Florida

Subject

Sweet potatoes--Harvesting

Occupational groups--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Occupations, Agricultural--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Ipomoea

Convolvulaceae

Tubiflorae

Harvesting

Agricultural laborers--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Farms--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Crops--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Agriculture--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Sweet potato industry--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Vegetable trade--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Material culture--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Food crops--Florida--Dade County--Homestead

Date

1986

Identifier

FS864795

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Date Note

Photographed on September 6, 1986.

Geographic Term

Homestead (Fla.)

Dade County (Fla.)

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color

Physical Description

1 slide - col.

Series Title

Folklife Collection.

Folklife Collection Series 1577, Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey; no 41

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Laborer harvesting sweet potato crop - Homestead, Florida. 1986. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122439>, accessed 12 June 2026.

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Laborer harvesting sweet potato crop - Homestead, Florida. 1986. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122439>

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