| WOMEN AT WORK, FRUIT FARM Good footage of women working on a fruit farm in 1916. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5102 | |
| Catalog #: | 365275 | |
| Clip Number: | 365275-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 9 D | |
| Timecode: | 01:04:36 - 01:05:44 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1916 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Fruit LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England OCCUPATIONS: Women WORLD WAR ONE, HOMEFRONT: War Work | |
| Description: | WOMEN AT WORK, FRUIT FARM Good footage of women working on a fruit farm in 1916. Opens with shot of 4 women - land girls? - hoeing rows in a field. Man walks up from behind and says something to one of them. Women raking, turning over soil around tiny fruit trees. Then women (wearing overalls) stand at a trellis, training vines. The ever-present supervisor comes up to give directions. Woman operating a pump, the man walks up, does something to the pump and walks on. Pan to man watching as a woman sprays trees from a hose attached to the pump; another woman does same. (Agriculture; women; labor. ) | |
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