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		germinalphrase on Feb 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The black hole photographs: Unpublished images fro... Interesting that it appears the cranberries are being harvested in dry fields. I always assumed that flooding was an old harvesting technique.

newaccount74 on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

Looks like they used both ways to harvest cranberries.

Boy with cranberry scoop: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723915/resource/

Gathering cranberries in a flooded bog (not sure what a bog is): https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723887/resource/

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