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Picking berries, Weatherford, Texas – Vintage Wall Art

Picking berries, Weatherford, Texas, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Picking berries, Weatherford, Texas, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Picking berries, Weatherford, Texas comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Picking berries, Weatherford, Texas

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Few pictures in this set name a town as specifically as this one does: Weatherford, the seat of Parker County in north-central Texas, is the setting for this scene of berry picking. Hand-harvesting fruit was a common seasonal task on small farms and in rural communities across Texas, often done by whole families working the rows together. The caption card gives no date, and the record notes that its information is unverified, so the exact year remains uncertain. Even so, the scene offers a glimpse of everyday food production outside the larger cities.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 1908. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fruit; Geog.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158198

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