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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Farm scene including a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder, people, a farmhouse, and a barn. |
| Date: | 07 27 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam construction site on the Wisconsin River from the west shore. The outline of the coffer dam is easily seen. Three steam-pow... |
| Date: | 08 26 1917 |
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| Description: | Barn, silos and cows at a farm. There are men attending to the cows, while the women and children are attending to the milk cans. |
| Date: | 12 20 1907 |
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| Description: | Men are working with horses, a threshing machine, a push binder(?) and stationary engine in a field. A group of men and women with a horse-drawn buggy are ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Two women using McCormick-Deering relief tractors in a field damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across a field of horse-drawn grain binder with a farm in the middle distance. Men are standing in the barnyard, and a woman is standing on the lawn n... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a cowgirl and cowboy on horseback. Their horses are facing each other as they look at the camera. A lake or river is in the background. Caption... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight cowgirls on horseback lined up on a low rise with a river or stream behind them. Caption reads: "No. 116 Cowgirls, 101 Ranch, Oklah... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View across water toward six cowgirls on their horses, with their reflection in the water. Ranch outbuildings are in the background. Caption reads: "Cowgir... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a cowgirl sitting on a horse. A fence runs along the left, with an open field in the background. Caption reads: "Cowgirl on 101 Ranch, Oklahoma... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men and women at the construction site for new silo. One man holds the reins for nearby team of work horses while the other man stands inside the pit f... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men loading dirt into a wagon while digging for a new pit silo using a derrick. Two women are standing in the background. |
| Date: | 07 22 1923 |
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| Description: | Chickens gathering around a woman near a poultry house (or chicken coop) as she is feeding the flock from a metal pail. A man is walking down a path in the... |
| Date: | 07 22 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman stands outside a wooden shed while feeding a flock of chickens from a metal bucket. Several small chicken coops stand alongside the shed. |
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