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Picking Cucumbers

Date: 08 1970
Description: Mrs. Matias Perez and her daughter empty buckets of cucumbers picked into burlap bags.
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Sweep Horsepower Threshing

Date: 1890
Description: Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left.
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Farmers with Large Haystack

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Description: Several farmers posing with a very large haystack. A man identified as "Uncle Dave" is standing on top of the hay.
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Davies and Thomas Families

Date: 1900
Description: Members of the Davies and Thomas families pose with two horses at James E. Davies' farm on Highway A, west of K.
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Portrait of Two Men

Date: 1907
Description: Interior portrait of two men, including the photographer, Otto Lindner. In the background is a large safe.
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Barber Shop

Date: 1907
Description: Interior of barber shop with barber and customer. Possibly Coloma, Wisconsin.
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Planting Pine Tree Seedlings

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Description: Four men prepare pine tree seedlings for planting in an open field. One man drives a small tractor, while two men stand behind. Another man sits on a tree ...
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Howard Kimball in his Pine River General store

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Description: Howard Kimball is seated at his desk looking over papers in his Pine River general store. Various products are visible in the background, as well as stacks...
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Planting Norway Pine Seedlings

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Description: Floyd Everett drives a tractor as Franklin Kempf plants Norway Pine seedlings using a tree planting trailer hitched to the back of the tractor.
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Transporting Beehives at Henry's Honey Farm

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Description: Side view of a truck and flatbed trailer transporting beehives at Henry's Honey Farm. The truck is parked on a road among an open fields lined by trees. Th...
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Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant laborers hoe a cucumber field by hand. There is one worker in the foreground and two others in the background. Rows of seedlings extend across the ...
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Cucumber Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hand tools.

Cultivación de pepinos

Vista desde el suelo de unos trabajadore...
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Cucumber Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of a double row of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hoes.

Cultivando pepino

Vista desde el suelo de una línea ...
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Teatro Campesino Acto

Date: 1967
Description: Teatro Campesino acto or skit dramatizing the experiences of Hispanic workers in America. Four actors stand together in costume with signs around their nec...
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Wautoma-Dakota Dump

Date: 1967
Description: Dump where discarded mattresses were resold to growers for migrant laborer camp use. A sign identifying the dump and its hours stands behind a barbed wire ...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Wautoma Teens Counter-Picketing Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: Four young men sitting in front of a grocery store. The young man on the left is sitting beside a crate of corn, wearing sunglasses and holding a bag of gr...
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United Workers March to Madison

Date: 1966
Description: An Obreros Unidos (United Workers) member holding a sign, possibly like those in the background, that says "Juntarnos Para Ser Reconocidos/Hablar Para Ser ...
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Green Bay Food Company Camp

Date: 1966
Description: Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company.

In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr...

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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize...

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