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Unloading Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Dumping a truckload of freshly harvested cranberries.
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Checking Corn Kernels

Date: 1969
Description: Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts.
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Inspecting Peas

Date: 1975
Description: Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari...
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Cranberry Harvester

Date: 
Description: Cranberry harvesting machine on the property of the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company in Wisconsin Rapids.
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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Cranberry Quality Control

Date: 10 1969
Description: As the recently-harvested cranberries move past them on a conveyor belt, they are inspected for quality by a work force made up primarily of women.
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Cranberry Ditches

Date: 1935
Description: Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips.
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Cranberry Cleaning Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Men loading freshly harvested cranberries into a cleaning machine. Plant debris is still visibly mixed in with the berries.
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Men with Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1965
Description: Two men, in waders, posing with cranberry harvesting equipment and freshly harvested berries. The berries have been loaded onto small barges.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 09 1972
Description: Unidentified man working to harvest cranberries. As the berries are picked from the bog they are deposited in a small barge that moves along with the harve...
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries.
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 1970
Description: Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt.
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Transporting Cranberries

Date: 1978
Description: Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr...
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Truckload of Cranberries

Date: 10 1968
Description: A large truckload of cranberries being unloaded into a large open storage tank. The truck has been lifted into the air on a large platform, and a woman sta...

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