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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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Picking Cranberries

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Description: A group of men and women gather in a bog to pick cranberries.
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Displaying Cranberries

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Description: A group of men and women stand in or near a tent displaying cranberries.
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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
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Gathering Cranberries

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Description: Men and women in a bog picking cranberries.
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Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
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Harvesting Onions

Date: 07 1936
Description: Men and women harvesting onions in a field, filling wooden crates. There are trees along the edge of the field in the background.
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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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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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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1930
Description: A group of Native Americans, working in a long row, harvesting cranberries. They appear to be women and children. Dwellings are in the background on the le...
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Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: A group of men and women pick cranberries in a bog.
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Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
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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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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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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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Selling Cherries

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Description: Two boys standing behind a wagon or truck bed loaded with buckets full of cherries. A woman wearing a hat is standing by a building in the background.
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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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Cutting Grain

Date: 1875
Description: Two women and six men are cutting grain or hay using hand tools and horse-drawn implements. Behind them is a frame house.

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