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| Date: | 08 02 1926 |
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| Description: | Four men in a potato field at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113. |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Potato digger drawn by three horses in field near a man wearing a white shirt with collar and boater hat. A wire basket full of potatoes and a bushel baske... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A man dusting a potato crop in a field with arsenate of lead. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two farmers using a Farmall tractor with a Bean-Royal #20 sprayer to spray a crop of potatoes. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Harry M. Cosway, tractor operator for Porter & Bonney, driving a tractor through a crop of potatoes. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Phillippa Monachino, a participant in "Tractorette" class, driving a tractor through a field of potatoes. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of a potato field showing the rows of potatoes, with men standing near full bushels. Caption reads: "An Aroostook Potato Field. Houlton, ME." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | "Ben & Catherine Adelmeyer tend their potato crop in a field that abutted Henni & Wisconsin Streets." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from right rear of Frank Russel driving a Farmall H tractor with a middlebuster to harvest potatoes. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from right rear of three women posing on a tractor pulling a potato digger outdoors in a potato field on the farm of L. Wilson. One woma... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 27 1923 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using a team of two horses to pull a potato digger in a field. |
| Date: | 10 27 1923 |
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| 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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