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Men with International Motor Hay Press

Date: 1915
Description: Men baling hay with engine powered hay press.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
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Avery 90 Horsepower Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Men use an Avery 90 horsepower tractor and a gang plow to work in a farm field.
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Workers Separating Rice from Stalks

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa...
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Jacob Plow

Date: 1910
Description: From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim...
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Charles Decorah

Date: 1925
Description: Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on...
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Charlotte Buffalo

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. Antoine Buffalo, Jr., posing in a field at the edge of a wood. She is a member of the Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribe, and a farmer. On the right are several ...

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