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Group of Workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts. – Vintage Print

Group of Workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts., 9 1911 — historic image
Group of Workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts., 9 1911. Historic image from the Thanksgiving collection.

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Step back in time with Group of Workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts., a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Group of Workers on Smart's Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts.

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Photographed at Smart's Bog near South Carver, Massachusetts, in September 1911, this scene catches the cranberry crop just before harvest. Bogs like this one were flooded and sanded beds that needed seasonal crews to gather the berries by hand or with scoops before they were sorted and shipped. Cranberry sauce had become a fixture of the Thanksgiving table, so the autumn work on southeastern Massachusetts bogs was timed to meet that holiday demand. Look closely at the workers and their tools to see how much of the early cranberry industry depended on manual labor.

Created / published9 1911
Original scan5,000 × 3,531 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference9

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