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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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing overalls and one wearing suspenders, stand on top of a mound of giant potatoes. A large cart drawn by two horses carries the potatoes ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man riding three giant potatoes, which are resting on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. A group of three onlookers stare up at the man. Black t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant potato rests on a single flatbed railroad car, which is part of the Great Northern line. A white banner on the potato says, "The Way We Raise Potat... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man, wearing overalls, sitting on a mound of giant potatoes resting on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. The man is sitting sideways, holding t... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man standing with arms outstretched atop a giant potato, resting on a red flatbed train car. The train car says "B & A 321" on the side in white letters, ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an... |
| Date: | 08 30 1963 |
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| Description: | Closely timed cooking and quick serving are the secret of a successful fish boil. A heavy iron bar is inserted in the basket of potatoes and onions to remo... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
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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:... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of a potato field showing the rows of potatoes, with men standing near full bushels. Caption reads: "An Aroostook Potato Field. Houlton, ME." |
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| Description: | An open air fruit stand in the Center Market in Baltimore, MD. What appears to be cabbages, apples, potatoes and onions are in piles or in baskets. Horse-d... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two men picking through bushels of potatoes that have been dumped from a freight train. The men are scouring for potatoes that are still good. Original cap... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Thousands of potatoes dumped from a freight train along a rail embankment. There is a cow in the background foraging. Original caption reads, "Many thousan... |
| Date: | 03 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads burlap bags of potatoes from a railroad car onto the back of an International Model S truck owned by Howard Reilley. |
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| Description: | Potatoes going from truck to sorting machine at the Mumbrue farm. Roy Roth and George Mumbrue stand next to the machine in front of a barn. |
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| Description: | William Burchart and Herman Novak unload potatoes from a truck at Frito-Lay Potato Corporation. The potatoes are being dumped from the back of the truck in... |
| Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks... |
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