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Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
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Dusting Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 1919
Description: A man dusting a potato crop in a field with arsenate of lead.
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Potato Spraying

Date: 1936
Description: Two farmers using a Farmall tractor with a Bean-Royal #20 sprayer to spray a crop of potatoes.
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Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
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Gladys Skipka with Farmall Tractor and Potato Digger

Date: 1942
Description: Elevated view of Gladys Skipka using a Farmall tractor and a potato digger to work on a 71-acre potato farm. The original caption reads: "Gladys Skipka of ...
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Planting Potatoes

Date: 1919
Description: A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls is sitting behind a team of two horses while planting potatoes at the International Harvester Company experim...
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Potato Field in Forest

Date: 08 01 1895
Description: A field of potato plants, with a forest in the background. A man is leaning against a basswood or linden tree that stands approximately eighty-five feet ta...
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Field of Potatoes on the Farm of Oswald Scheller

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on...

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Potato Harvest

Date: 1895
Description: A bearded man stands in a vegetable garden holding a hat full of potatoes. There is a carriage with a team of horses on the road beside the garden.
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
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Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...
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Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View down field of harvested potatoes. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on the left and looking down at a basket of potatoes. More baskets of potat...
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Digging Potatoes

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of two men working in a field. One man is driving a Farmall tractor which is pulling another man who is sitting on a pot...
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Boy Eating an Onion or a Potato in Field

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Description: View of a boy standing and eating an onion or a potato in a field. Next to him are three baskets of onions or potatoes resting on crates. In the far backgr...
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1950
Description: A man is harvesting potatoes using a John Deere tractor and a John Deere single row potato harvester.

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