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A deserted farm in the USA during the Depression, 1938.

Photo: akg-images (Dorothea Lange)

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A cow is milked with a calf tied to her leg, in a relief from an 11th Dynasty sarcophagus in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Photo: akg-images / Andrea Jemolo

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A manuscript illumination from 1527 showing the shearing of sheep.

Photo: akg-images / British Library

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Auguste Renoir's "Les moissoneurs" (The Reapers), 1873, now in a private collection in Switzerland.

Photo: akg-images

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Farmers in Chile using a tractor, 1954.

Photo: akg-images / Paul Almasy