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Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Photograph

Fresh Vegetable Vendors

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Description: Two African American women pose with baskets of fresh vegetables on their heads while selling their produce. A building with an exterior brick chimney is b...
Photograph

Aerial View of Rosholt

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view, looking west, with potato warehouses in the foreground and a pallet factory and junkyard behind them at right.
Photograph

Shipping Carrots

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market.
Photograph

Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
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...
Photograph

Vegetables at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Tagged vegetables, including pumpkins, potatoes, corn, and etc., displayed on a shelf and floor in a room.
Photograph

Family Garden

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Description: A family garden in a company town for the Consolidation Coal Co. Five people are displaying their produce among the garden and the nearby buildings.
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Cabbage Garden

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Description: A view of two men standing and working in a garden in the Canadian Yukon Territory. Caption reads: "A Klondyke Garden, Dawson, Y.T."
Photograph

Shipping Lettuce

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Description: A view of three men in a field, packing lettuce for shipment into wooden containers. Caption reads: "Shipping Lettuce, Mission, Texas."
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Harvesting Onions

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Description: A view of men and women in a field during the harvest of onions. Caption reads: "April Bermuda Onion Harvest, Mission, Texas."
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Harvesting of Grapes

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Description: A view of men and women harvesting grapes in a field.
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries.
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Chas. Beard Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Chas. (Charles) Beard, a grower of fancy rural New York seed potatoes from Elcho, Wisconsin, with a duotone image of a potato, and "One of My...
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A.C. Bennett & Son Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of A.C. Bennett & Son, growers of and dealers in cultivated cranberries from Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, with a two-color illustration of cranberri...
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Geo. C. Mansfield Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Geo. (George) C. Mansfield Company, a manufacturer and dealer in butter, eggs, cheese, poultry and country produce from Johnsons Creek, Wis...
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Wisconsin Elevator Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Elevator Company, keepers of "grain, hay and produce," from Roberts, Wisconsin, with a sheaf of wheat in a center medallion, su...
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American Cranberry Exchange Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the American Cranberry Exchange, which had a main office in New York City and a branch office in Chicago, with "Eatmor Cranberries" in a scro...
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Reynolds Brothers, Inc. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Reynolds Brothers of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, growers and packers of fresh, frozen, and canned Door County cherries, with a leafy branch lade...
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Oconomowoc Canning Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oconomowoc Canning Company, with a can of Teenie Weenie Wisconsin peas featuring a label with Teenie Weenie figures emptying pods of peas...

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