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Orchard Pesticide Application

Date: 06 1939
Description: A man smoking a cigarette drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor as another man stands on the tank of an attached 150-gallon sprayer while applying pesti...
Photograph

Spraying Fruit Trees

Date: 09 20 1924
Description: A man stands on a platform made of wood while using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a grove of fruit trees. Another man stands on the back, and another man...
Photograph

Pesticide Sprayer

Date: 06 29 1939
Description: Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can...
Photograph

Men Transporting Produce

Date: 05 21 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to haul two wagons loaded with burlap bags of farm produce, possibly oranges. The tractor drives along a di...
Photograph

Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 30 1925
Description: Men loading bushels of fruit and vegetables onto the back of a Model 63 International truck owned by the McCray & Hunter company. A loading dock of a brick...
Photograph

Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 22 1925
Description: A man unloads a bushel basket of fruits and vegetables from the back of a Model S International truck owned by Louis Tauco. The man is making deliveries in...
Photograph

Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ...
Photograph

Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries.
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
Book or Pamphlet

Heider Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Interior spread of a booklet produced by the Rock Island Plow Company to advertise Heider tractors. The advertisement features a color illustration of the ...
Photograph

Pontiac Potatoes

Date: 09 1984
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 ...
Photograph

Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
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...
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Meeting Regarding Migrant Workers Aid

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Four women interested in migrant workers are shown examining foods picked annually by migrants. They will participate in a meeting sponsored by Covenant Pr...
Postcard

Northern Wisconsin Produce Company

Date: 1937
Description: View across street towards the warehouse and cold storage building of the Northern Wisconsin Produce Company at 1310 Clark Street. Two workmen are icing th...
Photograph

Farmers' Market Vendor

Date: 08 1975
Description: A vendor unloading their wares from the back of a truck at the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. A woman is sleeping inside the truck.
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Farmers' Market Vendors

Date: 08 1975
Description: Vendors weighing produce for customers from the back of a truck at the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square.
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Opening Day of Dane County Farmers' Market

Date: 04 1998
Description: A farmer weighing ginseng on opening day of the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. Pedestrians are strolling on the sidewalk on the right. ...

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