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Digging Potatoes

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of two men working in a field. One man is driving a Farmall tractor which is pulling another man who is sitting on a pot...
Postcard

Reeves Roadside Market

Date: 1969
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Reeves Roadside Market, Highway 14 East of Spring Green. Telephone (608)588-2744 or 588-3996. Home Grown Fruits and Vegetables in s...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Potato Digger

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View across field of harvested potatoes towards a man using a horse-drawn potato digger. There are other people in the background, and baskets of harvested...
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Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn potato digger in a field. Baskets of harvested potatoes are scattered among the rows.
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Tractor-Drawn Potato Planter

Date: 11 04 1926
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man driving a tractor pulling a potato planter in a field. Another man is standing on the left behind the potato p...
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Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View down field of harvested potatoes. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on the left and looking down at a basket of potatoes. More baskets of potat...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Potato Digger

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using a team of two horses to pull a potato digger in a field.
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Potato Field

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Four men in a potato field at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
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Man Driving Tractor Pulling Potato Planter

Date: 11 04 1926
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a potato planter in a field. There is a wagon or truck parked in the background on the left. A dog in the fiel...
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Mule Drawn Potator Diggers

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A man is sitting on a mule-drawn potato digger in a field. A child is standing on the far left.
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Wisconsin Potato Growers Association

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibition of potatoes. The sign on the far right over a bin of potato's reads: "Green Mountain, grown by S.J. Uhrenholdt, Hayward, Sawyer County, Listed w...
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1950
Description: A man is harvesting potatoes using a John Deere tractor and a John Deere single row potato harvester.
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Community Potato Patch

Date: 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "As far as the eye can see — potatoes. One of the community potato patches planted in the valley by Harry Sears, corporation c...
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Alfred's Big Potato

Date: 09 1902
Description: Looking at the camera, Alfred Holt is holding up a big potato, possibly a double potato. Younger sister Eleanor Holt is standing to the right of Alfred Hol...
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Boy Eating an Onion or a Potato in Field

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Description: View of a boy standing and eating an onion or a potato in a field. Next to him are three baskets of onions or potatoes resting on crates. In the far backgr...
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Farmall M Tractor Pulling a Potato Digger

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Description: A man operating a Farmall M tractor while pulling a potato digger. Several men are behind the digger, bagging potatoes off of a conveyor.
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Man and Boy Posing Sitting Around a Tub of Potatoes

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Description: Copy photograph of an outdoor portrait of a man and boy posing sitting around a tub of potatoes on a lawn near a building.
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Harvesting Potatoes

Date: 1925
Description: A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There...
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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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"A Load of Montana Spuds"

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Description: A view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon which is loaded with giant, six-foot-high potatoes, probably to be used as a tall-tale postcard. Caption reads:...

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