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98 photos and 26 illustrations tagged oxen, from 16 members of Flickr Commons.

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• publicdomain
• mechanicalcurator
• vol0
• carts
• wagons
• sherlocknet:category=organism
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• pubplacelondon
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• keene
• keenenh
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• 1900s
• farming
• jafrench
• plowing
• oxteam
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• plow
• ox
• sherlocknet:tag=country
• sherlocknet:tag=whole

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• British Library 26 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 21 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 18 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 13 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 12 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 7 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 5 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 4 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 3 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 2 photos & illustrations

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British Library digitised image from page 131 of "Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War, etc"

from British Library

• Gomez Addams said:

  Ploughing in Bulgaria

Sacred oxen for funeral, Emperor Japan (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Nathan Adams said:

  This would be for the Meiji Emperor who died in 1912. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji

• swanq said:

  Date on negative is 9/9/12. He died on July 30, 1912. Funeral was in September. NYT article on September 8, 1912 [ query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502E4DA113AE633A... ] shows the oxen being led through Tokyo streets to temporary housing before funeral. They had been brought from Kyoto.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks for the additional information! We'll update the source data and reload the description.

Harvesting sugar cane in a burned field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico. Burning the sugar cane gets rid of the dense leaves and makes cutting the unharmed stalks easier (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• ARCHIVO HISTORICO Y FOTOGRAFICO DE PUERTO RICO said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called INDUSTRIA AZUCARERA DE PUERTO RICO - 1898 TO PRESENT (CENTRAL, T, and we'd love to have this added to the group!