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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: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A man dusting a potato crop in a field with arsenate of lead. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Rear view of two farmers pulling a potato digger in a field with a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| 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: | 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of female workers at the Red Dot Potato Chip Company. Fourth from the left in the top row is Vivian Harrison Matheson, identified by Ellis... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
| Date: | 02 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Potatoes from all over the state are displayed at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Ihir Birjandr, a grad... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two men picking through bushels of potatoes that have been dumped from a freight train. The men are scouring for potatoes that are still good. Original cap... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is siftting flour into a bowl in a kitchen. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. The table in front of h... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Children working in garden. One child is pulling beets, while another child is digging up potatoes with a hoe. Another child is sitting in a wheelbarrow lo... |
| 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: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train. |
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