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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Tagged vegetables, including pumpkins, potatoes, corn, and etc., displayed on a shelf and floor in a room. |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Thousands of potatoes dumped from a freight train along a rail embankment. There is a cow in the background foraging. Original caption reads, "Many thousan... |
| 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: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a potato ricer in a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron is standing in a cellar while taking potatoes out of a basket for storage on a shelf. Shelves on the wall behind her hold multiple... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Farm produce is stored in the corner of a cellar with dirt floors and brick walls. Gourds, potatoes, and pumpkins are kept in barrels, baskets, and on a ta... |
| Date: | 03 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads burlap bags of potatoes from a railroad car onto the back of an International Model S truck owned by Howard Reilley. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A still life of fresh garden vegetables including squash, eggplant, melons, potatoes, cabbage, peppers and corn. |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | "Ben & Catherine Adelmeyer tend their potato crop in a field that abutted Henni & Wisconsin Streets." |
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