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Harvesting Sussex soybeans in the 1920s

September 10, 2019

Mechanical crop harvesting was just coming on the Sussex scene when Georgetown native Harold WT Purnell made this photograph in the 1920s. Information with the image says we should take notice of the goggles on the tractor driver.

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