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Dry Cranberry Picking

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Description: Cranberry pickers in a Wisconsin marsh. The pickers include women and children.
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Women Sorting Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: A row of women sort cranberries on a conveyor belt at the Walker Cranberry Company. They are wearing jackets and hairnets. The woman in the foreground is w...
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Ho-Chunk Woman in Field with Tents

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Description: A Ho-Chunk woman walking in a field. In the background are several white tents, possibly an encampment for a cranberry harvest.
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Hops Field

Date: 1874
Description: Group of men, women and children gathered in a hops field, possibly that of Paul Saavles. The women are wearing hoods.
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Ginseng Beds

Date: 1938
Description: Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin.
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Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
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Women Combing Hemp Fibers

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Lula Lawrence, lsft, and Esther Gunderson combing hemp fibers. In the background two women are sorting hemp fiber bundles for rope and cordage during Worl...
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Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
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Packing Boxes with Bags of Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Two young men are packing boxes with bags of Ocean Spray cranberries. In the background women are bagging the cranberries.
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Laffan Hop Yard

Date: 1880
Description: Hop pickers posing in the Laffan hop yard.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
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...
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Women Processing Hemp Fibers

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II.
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Pea Viner

Date: 1924
Description: A group of farmers, including women and children, pose in front of a pea processing plant.
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Picking Tomatoes

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Description: View down rows of a field towards men, women, and children picking vegetables, probably tomatoes, in a field.
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Group Harvesting

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Description: Outdoor view of men and women sitting and standing in a field harvesting a crop.
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Hand Picking Cranberries

Date: 1936
Description: A large crew works in a sectioned field of cranberries in order to hand pick the harvest from a Wisconsin bog.
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Teenagers with Vegetables

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Description: A young man and woman wearing work clothes are standing in a garden, holding very large root vegetables. The woman is wearing a bonnet and the man is weari...
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
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Handpicking Cranberries

Date: 1936
Description: A large crew in a sectioned field harvests cranberries by hand from a Wisconsin cranberry bog. There are farm buildings in the background.
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Ho-Chunk and European-American Group in a Field

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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...

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