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Maple Grove
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An unidentified man wearing a hat and double breasted overcoat is holding a binocular case in his left hand and posing beside maple trees that have multiple spiles, or taps, in their trunks. There are maple syrup buckets on the ground.
1930
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Sugar Camp
1930
A Native American man, left, posing in front of the sapling frame of a shelter at a maple sugar camp. Two Native American women are standing under the framework, and a man of European descent is at...
Man Tapping Sugar Maple Tree
A man drilling a hole in a sugar maple tree, for extracting the sap, using a hand drill. A bucket is hanging on the opposite side of the tree under a tap. The sap will eventually be made into maple...
Sugarbush
circa 1970-1979
An elderly man is pouring maple sap from a bucket into another bucket. He is wearing eyeglasses, a cap, and tall work boots. More bucket taps are on trees in the background. Patches of snow are on ...
Production of Maple Syrup
circa 1927
Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin.
Tapped Maple Tree
1966
View of a tapped Maple tree collecting sap in a covered bucket. The forest is covered in snow, and a small cabin is in the background.
Collecting Maple Sap at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm
circa 1960-1969
Two men in a forest are pouring maple sap into metal barrels and buckets at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm. One man is standing in the back of the trailer hitched to a John Deere tractor, while t...
