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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man riding three giant potatoes, which are resting on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. A group of three onlookers stare up at the man. Black t... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | Alden G. Bagley driving a Farmall M pulling a wagon loaded with barrels of seed potatoes. Behind him is his 6,000 barrel storage house. |
| 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. |
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