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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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, ... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
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