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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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing overalls and one wearing suspenders, stand on top of a mound of giant potatoes. A large cart drawn by two horses carries the potatoes ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on... |
| 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: | 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: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Rear view of two farmers pulling a potato digger in a field with a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man, wearing overalls, sitting on a mound of giant potatoes resting on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. The man is sitting sideways, holding 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: | 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: | 08 30 1963 |
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| Description: | Closely timed cooking and quick serving are the secret of a successful fish boil. A heavy iron bar is inserted in the basket of potatoes and onions to remo... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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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