Two mules pull a plow while women cultivate these Georgetown County fields using rakes and hoes. Photograph album of William Doyle Morgan, around 1890.
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A beekeeper tends his hives in Oconee County around 1960. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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State and County Fair competitions were an important way for farmers to exchange information about their crops and livestock. Until the 1960s, separate segregated fairs were held, both in individual...
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This photograph at the State Fair in 1926 shows boys and older men lined up in a calf competition. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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During the 1920s, the crop that a sharecropper planted was often controlled by the market to which he sold it. Many sharecroppers' wives were able to find a market for some of the vegetables from...
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A county agent inspects the yield of a farmer's peanut crop after he has used fertilizer; photo by G.W. Ackerman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1923. Courtesy of the National Archives and...
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One of the more unusual agricultural ventures in South Carolina has been the successful tea plantation located in Summerville. Here in the Pinehurst Tea Gardens are the fragile tea plants in the...
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The can label from Carolina Peach Co. around 1920 proclaims, "great oaks from little acorns grow!" Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.
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An aerial view of peach orchards, Cherokee, October 1966. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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A mechanical apple harvesting machine at work, Long Creek, September 8, 1970. Photo by L.W. Riley. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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Charleston County, east of Meggett, May 1936. The caption on the photo states this is the, "Packing shed on the farm of Chas. E. Gibson, truck farmer, morning scene, crating cabbage as it is cut and...