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Agricultural Work
1878 Cranberry Bog, Ocean County Pickers at Work; a newspaper illustration from Harper's Weekly, November 10, 1878.
1869 Strawberry Fields, Burlington County,1869, a Harper's Weekly newspaper illustration.
c. 1920s Elizabeth Coleman White (1871-1954), developer of the nation's first cultivated blueberry.
1940 Child Labor on New Jersey Farms, 1940.
c. 1943 Buying Victory Garden Seed, c.1943.
c. 1950s Alberta Gonzalez (1914-1996), a migrant farm worker and labor leader.
1952 New Jersey Wage Discrimination Act. This act was New Jersey's first equal pay act, 1952.