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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Hop harvesters, mostly female, stand with hops, probably on the farm of Knudt Heimdal. Many of the harvesters have hop wreaths on their heads. Two men with... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | International 15-30 H.P tractor running an International 28 x 46 thresher on a rural farm. The tractor was purchased by Oscar Krueger in 1920. The threshe... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Taken on logging railroad, Lakeshore and Eastern Railroad, owned and operated by the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber company, Phillips, Wisconsin. Photograph is tak... |
| Date: | 07 06 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing in field of high clover. |
| Date: | 09 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a male worker in a field demonstrating a cultivator for the McKay Nursery. Other workers are in the field in the background. |
| Date: | 08 02 1926 |
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| Description: | Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist. |
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| Description: | German farm couple returning from the fields, crossing railroad tracks. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries. |
| Date: | 05 24 1979 |
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| Description: | Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman. |
| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Matias Perez and her daughter empty buckets of cucumbers picked into burlap bags. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Field workers gathering and spearing cut tobacco leaves. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county. |
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| Description: | Men are in a farmyard (possibly at a sorghum mill) with horses hitched to a central-rig. A haystack, barn, wagons and farm machinery are in the background. |
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