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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon... |
| Date: | 06 22 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy using a truck to harvest reed canary grass. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Man on a tractor plows furrows in former brush land where Reed Canary Grass is to be planted. Another man stands to the side. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Warden Kramer and an assistant hold up confiscated sturgeon caught with illegal snag lines. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Cranberry marsh with farm buildings in the far background. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A team of cranberry harvesters work in a line across a flooded cranberry marsh. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A covered metal tank with the words "Schulz" and "Minneapolis" painted on it is standing in front of a slatted shade structure over a ginseng bed. The stru... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Cumulus clouds are casting their shadows over rolling farmland. Several farmsteads are along a narrow road. There are cows grazing in a pasture. On the rev... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of chickens ranging near their coop behind a farmhouse and outbuildings on a tidy farm. There is a large barn on the right with two... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Three large barns with gambrel roofs and metal ventilators near a narrow road. There is a large silo on the right. The long barn in the foreground bears th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A field is demarcated by tree stumps piled in a wide row. Beyond the piled stumps is a field with stumps still in the ground. There is a farm building on t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A farmer resting, sitting on the handles of his plow, with his right foot in the furrow. His team, in harness, are standing head to head. They are in front... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A man is unloading bundles of grain from a horse-drawn wagon to another man (barely visible) who will feed the bundles into an Advance-Rumely threshing mac... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Large branches of an oak tree frame the view of a large farmhouse, barn, and outbuildings. The two-story house has two front dormers and porches on the fro... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An immature fox looking toward the camera, standing with rear legs crouched. There is a chicken wire fence in the background. |
| Date: | 09 1930 |
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| Description: | An adult gray fox looking directly at the photographer. Foliage has been painted in the background, possibly to obscure a chicken wire fence. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An adult badger, standing in front of a small wooden shed in a fenced enclosure, looking directly at the photographer. |
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