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Combining wheat on the Hugh McGee farm in Anderson County, June 1954. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.South Carolina Counties
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Combining Wheat | History of SC Slide Collection
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Baling Hay | History of SC Slide Collection
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9
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These Sumter County farmers are using machinery to bale their hay around 1900. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.
Ruby Richey & Estelle Rineheart
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Ruby and Estelle discuss how relaxing it is to quilt.
Ruby Richey & Estelle Rineheart
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Ruby Richey and Estelle Rineheart discuss how they began quilting.
The Arnold Gully | History of SC Slide Collection
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The Arnold gully, four miles west of Woodruff on Buncombe Road, South Tiger Erosion Project. The gully in the photo was measured at 20 feet deep (before treatment with kudzu, it had been 35 feet deep)...
Gullies in the Piedmont | History of SC Slide Collection
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Erosion photographs taken about 1935 by the Department of Agriculture. The caption says, "Active roadside gully formed in old roadbed. Note new location of roadbed. This is the way many gullies in the...
Okra | History of SC Slide Collection
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Okra was a crop first brought to South Carolina from Africa. It is now a staple of southern cooking, widely used to thicken stews and gumbos. Here it is harvested around 1970 at the Clemson experiment...
Tractor and Grader | History of SC Slide Collection
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Spartanburg County, August 1936. J.T. Hudson's land at Woodruff, South Carolina. "Tractor and grader used to construct terraces. In addition to this machine, Mr. Hudson is operating five teams with...
Advent of Steam Farm Equipment | History of SC Slide Collection
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The advent of steam farm equipment did not make horsepower immediately out of date. Here, in October 1918 at the J.L. Coker farm in Hartsville, a steam tractor and horse-drawn wagons work together to...
Two Mules Cultivate Georgetown County Fields with Rakes and Hoes | History of SC Slide Collection
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Two mules pull a plow while women cultivate these Georgetown County fields using rakes and hoes. Photograph album of William Doyle Morgan, around 1890. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.