- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Bedspring Peanut Pickers
- Date of Original:
- 1933/1937
- Subject:
- Biologists--Georgia--Tifton
Women biologists--Georgia--Tifton
Women botanists--Georgia--Tifton
Botanists--Georgia--Tifton
Plants--Georgia--Tifton
Crops--Georgia--Tifton
Agriculture--Georgia--Tifton
Trees--Georgia--Tifton
Springs (Mechanism)
Beds
Peanuts--Processing--Georgia--Tifton
Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Woodroof, Naomi C. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Tift County, Tifton, 31.45046, -83.5085
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- One of the many innovations introduced by Naomi Chapman Woodroof, an early pioneer in peanut research, was the use of bedsprings to separate peanuts from the plant during harvest. Woodroof worked at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus) from 1933 to 1967.
Photograph showing Naomi Woodroof, an early pioneer in peanut research, using bedsprings to separate peanuts from the plant during harvest. A man sits across from her and assists her in this work. They sit on benches placed in a field.
This was one of the many innovations introduced by Woodroof. Woodroof worked at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton from 1933 to 1967. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/people/naomi-chapman-woodroof-1900-1989/m-5571/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Jane Woodroof Akers
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/genetics-peanuts
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/naomi-chapman-woodroof-1900-1989
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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