Agriculture has always been an important part of our lives here in South Carolina!
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A mechanical apple harvesting machine at work, Long Creek, September 8, 1970. Photo by L.W. Riley. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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Charleston County, east of Meggett, May 1936. The caption on the photo states this is the, "Packing shed on the farm of Chas. E. Gibson, truck farmer, morning scene, crating cabbage as it is cut and...
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These unidentified men work in a packing plant sorting tomatoes around 1950. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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Children work in the fields picking peas. WPA photograph, 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Workers harvest sugar yams in Marion County during the 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Alfred Hutty painting of "Potato Diggers." Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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Mrs. Green grinds corn around 1910 using methods "from the old plantation days," according to the caption. From the Penn School Collection. Permission granted by Penn Center, Inc., St. Helena Island...
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A Native American family near Summerville uses a sorghum cane grinder in their yard. Photograph by Marion Post, January 1939, for the Farm Security Administration. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana...
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Combining wheat on the Hugh McGee farm in Anderson County, June 1954. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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These Sumter County farmers are using machinery to bale their hay around 1900. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.