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| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | The threshing team breaks from work for a noon meal at the farmhouse. A bench with wash basins, soap and water sits in the yard to allow workers to wash up... |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | Several people harvest grain by hand, while two men on horses look on. All the men wear sombreros; the men on horses wear suits, while the harvesters wear... |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Four men stand next to a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. A shock of corn is suspended in the air with a corn shocker. Two of the men have light-col... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys posing around a threshing steam tractor. Oliver Johnson is in the foreground. John Bergeson and Art(?) are on top of the stack. Henning Berges... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Dumping a truckload of freshly harvested cranberries. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Harvesting cranberries at the Cranberry Lake Lake Development Company in Wood County. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | A crew of agricultural workers loads boxes of cranberries for transport to the drying sheds. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a ribes eradication crew that was part of the white pine blister rust effort in a Barron County forest. The caption indicates tha... |
| Date: | 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Picking strawberries on the farm of Earl Leverich in Monroe County. The Leverich family were leaders in commercial fruit growing in Wisconsin and Earl Lev... |
| Date: | 09 1938 |
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| Description: | A farmer stringing tobacco somewhere in southern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Construction of a leadgate to control the water flow in a new cranberry section at the Cranberry Lake Development Company in Price County. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr... |
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