Working in a Hemp Field, 1905

‘Working in a Hemp Field’, men work to harvest a hemp field utilizing a hemp braking machine.  Kentucky 1905  

Shocks in a Field, undated

‘Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field’  Brandon, Wisconsin undated    

Men Shocking Hemp, 1900

‘Men shocking, or standing and binding large bundles of hemp’ photographed by Rue B. Archibald.  Mercer county, Kentucky between 1900-04      

Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land, 1931

    Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land Farmers of the Imperial Valley, in California, have found wild hemp, a familiar weed, will in two or three months replenish exhausted soil as thoroughly as alfalfa and do the job Read More …

Hiding in the Hemp, 1912

‘A man wearing a suit and a straw hat standing among tall stalks of hemp in a field’.  Wisconsin, 1912      

Russian Raid, 1956

Russian Drug Agents raid Hemp farm for black market cannabis’,  Kyrgyzstan, USSR  1956        

Ipswitch Hemp Field, 1917

‘Superintendent Haney of International Harvester Company (left), South Dakota Senator Beebe, Professor Holden, and J.W. Parmley stand in a hemp field sown on May 19, 1917.’  Ipswitch, South Dakota – August 8, 1917    

Horse Drawn Reaper Harvest, 1912

Men use a horse-drawn reaper or hemp harvester to harvest hemp in a field. The hemp was used to produce binder twine.  Wisconsin 1912