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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
Book or Pamphlet

Picking Cotton

Date: 06 1931
Description: African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Photograph

Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child...
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Hay Mowing

Date: 1947
Description: Young Ralph Quinney driving a horse-drawn hay-mower on his family's farm.
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Corn Cultivation

Date: 1947
Description: Yound Richard Quinney operating a tractor to cultivate corn.
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Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
Print

Kreme-O-Maltz, Malt Syrup Label

Date: 1929
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Kreme-O-Maltz, Light Hop Flavor, Malt Syrup." Distributed by the Oshkosh Maltz Produ...
Photograph

Home from the Cheese Factory

Date: 1932
Description: John Hurda, left, and Russell Wepking pose with milk cans on a farm wagon. Hurda holds the reins to a team of two horses. There are two small sheds behind ...
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Men at the Brigham Farm

Date: 04 21 1911
Description: Group of men and a young boy breaking hemp at the Brigham farm.
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Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
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Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
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Workers in a Tea Field

Date: 1910
Description: Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an in...
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Workers Separating Rice from Stalks

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa...
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Workers Stripping Barley from Stalks

Date: 1910
Description: Workers in a field stripping barley grains from the stalks. The workers are all wearing blue clothing, and some are wearing wide-brimmed hats. The bundles ...
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Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
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Planting Corn

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses.
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Charlotte Buffalo

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. Antoine Buffalo, Jr., posing in a field at the edge of a wood. She is a member of the Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribe, and a farmer. On the right are several ...

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