A beautiful cabinet card recently came into the Local History Room, part of a larger collection. While the contrast in the original is a little faded (and has been adjusted in this scan), the image is otherwise perfect, and the subject — harvesting the cranberry crop — could not be more timely.
![pla-09-0023-hath Cranberry harvest, possible around 1900](https://www.kplma.org/pique/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pla-09-0023-hath.jpg)
This close-up shows men, women and children at work, dressed more formally than we might expect for such manual labor.
![pla-09-0023-hathDETAIL Detail of cranberry harvest, possibly around 1900](https://www.kplma.org/pique/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pla-09-0023-hathdetail.jpg)
But where is this bog? It could be almost anywhere: the blank back of the cabinet card yields no clues. A little sleuthing through the photograph collections however, turns up a second copy, much more worn but bearing a typed caption that tells us that this is indeed a Kingston location.
![pla-05-0001-lhr Keith & Adams Cranberry Bog, Kingston, Mass. possibly around 1900](https://www.kplma.org/pique/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pla-05-0001-lhr.jpg)