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Children work in the fields picking peas. WPA photograph, 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Workers harvest sugar yams in Marion County during the 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Alfred Hutty painting of "Potato Diggers." Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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Mrs. Green grinds corn around 1910 using methods "from the old plantation days," according to the caption. From the Penn School Collection. Permission granted by Penn Center, Inc., St. Helena Island...
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A Native American family near Summerville uses a sorghum cane grinder in their yard. Photograph by Marion Post, January 1939, for the Farm Security Administration. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana...
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Combining wheat on the Hugh McGee farm in Anderson County, June 1954. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
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These Sumter County farmers are using machinery to bale their hay around 1900. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.
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Although kudzu was an effective method for healing serious erosion problems, the Department of Agriculture and county agricultural agents sought to prevent that erosion in the first place. One method...
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The Arnold gully, four miles west of Woodruff on Buncombe Road, South Tiger Erosion Project. The gully in the photo was measured at 20 feet deep (before treatment with kudzu, it had been 35 feet deep)...
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Erosion photographs taken about 1935 by the Department of Agriculture. The caption says, "Active roadside gully formed in old roadbed. Note new location of roadbed. This is the way many gullies in the...