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Boys in straw hats with lima beans sign and pumpkin – Historic Reproduction

Boys in straw hats with lima beans sign and pumpkin — historic image
Boys in straw hats with lima beans sign and pumpkin. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Boys in straw hats with lima beans sign and pumpkin. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Two boys in straw hats stand among the goods at a market stall, a sign advertising lima beans beside them and a pumpkin resting nearby. Lima beans and pumpkins were staple crops on many American farms in the early twentieth century, and roadside and town markets like this one gave growers a direct route to buyers without a middleman. The picture's appeal lies in its small details: the handmade or painted sign, the produce set out in plain view, and the children who seem to be helping run the stall. Scenes like this document how family farms sold their harvests before supermarkets reshaped rural trade.

Original scan4,082 × 3,335 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
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