Looks like they used both ways to harvest cranberries. Boy with cranberry scoop: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723915/resource/ https://www.loc.gov/pic

Looks like they used both ways to harvest cranberries. Boy with cranberry scoop: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723915/resource/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723915/resource/ Gathering cranberries in a flooded bog (not sure what a bog is): https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723887/resource/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017723887/resource/