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| 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: | 09 25 1940 |
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| Description: | McKay Nursery Company field of landscape plants and trees. |
| Date: | 09 25 1940 |
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| Description: | Man standing in a McKay Nursery Company field of landscape plants and trees. |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | William G. McKay standing beside nursery stock inside the McKay Nursery warehouse. |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of employees standing beside nursery stock inside the McKay Nursery warehouse. |
| Date: | 05 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men holding up bare root trees at the McKay Nursery Branch Office, 911 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Storefront of McKay Nursery, 911 University Avenue. The sign above the entrance reads: "McKay Nursery Co. Wisconsin's Greatest Nursery." |
| Date: | 07 27 1929 |
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| Description: | The Cecil H. Chase house, 628 Pickford Street, taken for McKay Nursery. |
| Date: | 07 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Backyard landscaping of a house on Van Hise Avenue taken for McKay Nursery. |
| Date: | 09 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Interior of Rentschler Floral Company store at the greenhouses, 2 North Highland Avenue, showing cooler, potted plants, and counter. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a man unloading a burlap bag onto the back of an International R-120 pickup truck in front of "Toll Gate Nursery." |
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| Description: | Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhardt's nursery. A lar... |
| Date: | 08 28 1897 |
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| Description: | Receipt for trees and shrubs purchased from Commercial Nurseries of Council Bluffs, Iowa, by Nina Dousman for gardens at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 04 23 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for trees and shrubs purchased from John M. Dunlop by Hercules Dousman for gardens at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cranberry plants in various stages and varieties at the Nepco Nursery. A group of four men are working among the plants on the right. |
| Date: | 05 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a flatbed truck carrying lumber and a pickup truck carrying plants. Includes t... |
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| Description: | Five men are planting a field, probably planting trees at the Lake Nursery. Behind them is a man standing near a farm building among rows of plants. Anothe... |
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| Description: | Ten men are working in a field, probably planting raspberries at the Lake Nursery. Some of the men are standing watching. In the background are trees and h... |
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| Description: | Strawberry field, probably at the Lake Nursery. |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children are gathered in a field picking strawberries, probably at the Lake Nursery. Castle Mound is in the distance. |
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