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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The farm's hired hand John (played by Owen Moore) carefully approaches Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) who has fallen asleep while peeling a potato in a... |
| Date: | 08 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ... |
| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.L. Hill checking and keeping records of car numbers and sacks of Lerdoo Long White potato crop as it reaches the potato shed from the field. |
| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Mr. S.M. Hart, (left), supervisor of the C. and C. potato shed is proudly displaying samples of their prize potatoes now being bagged for shipment to Don F... |
| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a boy, 14-years-old, posing in front of a painted backdrop. He is standing next to a cloth covered table holding a plate of ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 10 27 1923 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn potato digger in a field. Baskets of harvested potatoes are scattered among the rows. |
| Date: | 10 27 1923 |
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| Description: | View across field of harvested potatoes towards a man using a horse-drawn potato digger. There are other people in the background, and baskets of harvested... |
| Date: | 11 04 1926 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a potato planter in a field. There is a wagon or truck parked in the background on the left. A dog in the fiel... |
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