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Women working in the corn harvest, Berks County, PA, circa 1890.
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Women working in corn harvest

Credit: Courtesy of Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania

Farm women worked the harvest. On the older woman's right hand, one can see the thong of her "husking peg," used to tear open the husk.

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