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Sugar Bush
1960
Steam and smoke billow as a man is boiling maple syrup on the Harvey Blue farm.
Gathering Maple Syrup
circa 1945
Two men and a child in Granton (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin. They are gathering maple syrup with a horse-drawn sled.
Man Tapping Sugar Maple Tree
A man drilling a hole in a sugar maple tree, for extracting the sap, using a hand drill. A bucket is hanging on the opposite side of the tree under a tap. The sap will eventually be made into maple...
Making Maple Sugar
1919
A child is standing on a log lying on the ground in a clearing. There is a barrel on the left, and a campfire in the background.
Maple Sugaring
September 13, 1949
A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to make maple sugar and syrup.
Collecting Maple Sap at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm
circa 1960-1969
Two men in a forest are pouring maple sap into metal barrels and buckets at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm. One man is standing in the back of the trailer hitched to a John Deere tractor, while t...
