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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries. |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | As the recently-harvested cranberries move past them on a conveyor belt, they are inspected for quality by a work force made up primarily of women. |
| 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: | 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Lunch counter during harvest season at a Wisconsin cranberry marsh. Cranberry pickers enjoy a break and lunch during the busy harvest season. |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Harvested cranberries being unloaded from a truck for cleaning and processing. A woman stands over the cranberries with a rake while adjusting the flow of ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Jean Nash, cranberry grower, posed next to a truck for the Biron Cranberry Company. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A large crew in a sectioned field harvests cranberries by hand from a Wisconsin cranberry bog. There are farm buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A large crew works in a sectioned field of cranberries in order to hand pick the harvest from a Wisconsin bog. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A wagon and crates full of cranberries sitting in the shade in a field. A group of people harvesting cranberries are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt. |
| Date: | 10 1968 |
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| Description: | A large truckload of cranberries being unloaded into a large open storage tank. The truck has been lifted into the air on a large platform, and a woman sta... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks. |
| Date: | 10 21 1997 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a jacket and hairnet sorts cranberries on a conveyor belt at the Walker Cranberry Company. |
| Date: | 11 21 1997 |
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| Description: | Many women sort cranberries on conveyor belts at the Walker Cranberry Company. All are wearing jackets and many wear hairnets. |
| Date: | 11 21 1997 |
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| Description: | Close-up of conveyor belt showing the sorting of cranberries at the Walker Cranberry Company. |
| Date: | 11 21 1997 |
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| Description: | Cranberries being sorted on a series of conveyor belts at the Walker Cranberry Company. |
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