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Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
Photograph

Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
Photograph

Man in West Pullman Works' Com munity Garden

Date: 07 1932
Description: Man bending over to pick vegetables in the West Pullman Works' community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International ...
Photograph

Weinstein Brothers Truck

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: A man unloads bags from the bed of an International Model C-30 truck with a special express body used by Weinstein Bros. fruit and produce dealers. The tru...
Book or Pamphlet

Kitchen Garden Diagram

Date: 1858
Description: Diagram drawing of a kitchen vegetable garden.
Photograph

Taliesin I Entry Loggia and Plantings in the Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I entry loggia and plants viewed from the courtyard. A small portion of the trellis is at the left from which gourds are hanging.
Photograph

Taliesin I Gardens

Date: 1912
Description: Gardens on the southeast side of Taliesin I. In addition to the vegetables there are foundations in the background supposedly to have been the bases for c...
Photograph

Taliesin I Entry Loggia and Plantings in the Courtyard

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I entry loggia and plants viewed from the courtyard. A small portion of the trellis is at the left from which gourds are hanging.
Photograph

North Vietnam Street Scene

Date: 1967
Description: Street scene of children and adults in Phat Diem, a city about 100 miles south of Hanoi.
Print

Dutch Canning Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of The Dutch Canning Company of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, "Packers of Fancy Corn Peas and Beans," with a boy and girl in traditional clothing and ...
Photograph

Shelling Peas

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, far right, and children, from left, Margaret, Alice, Helen, and Ferdinand Leonard, in a rustic gazebo on the grounds of...
Photograph

Waiting to Load Sacks on Train

Date: 09 1902
Description: Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Photograph

Children Posed with Produce

Date: 1910
Description: Two children posed on porch steps with assorted garden produce. Probably from the International Harvester Co. Educational Extension Project.
Photograph

Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
Photograph

Christine Peterson Cleaning Vegetables

Date: 
Description: Mrs. (Christine) Peterson by the back door. She is sitting on the top step and a cat is standing at her feet. A small pile of vegetables are next to her on...
Book or Pamphlet

Olds' Catalog Cover Design

Date: 1932
Description: The cover design of Olds' Catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The subtitle reads: "Tells the Truth." The illustration features a melon cut in half, and veg...
Photograph

Lima Beans for Dinner

Date: 08 1905
Description: Children are shelling lima beans on the porch at Island Lodge. Names from left to right on the porch: Jeannette Holt, Eleanor Holt, Donald Holt, and Harrie...
Photograph

Vegetable Farm

Date: 05 2019
Description: View of the vegetable garden at a vegetable farm outside of Palmer. There is a barn and a log structure in the background.
Photograph

Opening Day of Dane County Farmers' Market

Date: 04 1998
Description: A man is selling produce to customers on the opening day of the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the ba...

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