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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Ski Jumper

Date: 1911
Description: Skier heading down the jump at Stoughton with spectators in the foreground.
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Coming to a Stop

Date: 1911
Description: Ski jumper coming to a stop after a successful landing.
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Ski Jump Landing

Date: 1915
Description: Ski jumper eases to a stop with his legs splayed wide apart, and bent over forwards with their hands touching the ground for balance.
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Young Women on Skis

Date: 1915
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two girls on skis. Other people are in the background.
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Crash Landing

Date: 1915
Description: Ski jumper crash lands into the snow below the jump.
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Tandem Ski Jump

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Description: View from below of two skiers jumping at the same time, with spectators watching from both sides of the bottom of the ski jump.
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Children on Skis

Date: 1915
Description: Several young children on skis at the top of a hill at a Stoughton ski meet.
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Quarry Scene

Date: 1910
Description: View over quarry towards two men in suits sitting at the top edge of the cut face of the granite quarry. In the background is a house at the top of the hil...
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Girls Gathering Grains

Date: 1910
Description: Three girls standing in tall grass gathering a type of grain, with a thatched house and a hill in the background. The girls wear white blouses and skirts.
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Four People Carrying Packs

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo...
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Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
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Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
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Workers in a Tea Field

Date: 1910
Description: Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an in...
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Newly Constructed Trestle Bridge outside Cape Town

Date: 1910
Description: View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Table Mountain

Date: 1910
Description: View of Table Mountain and beach from Milnerton, South Africa. People are walking on the beach.
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Zambezi River and Railroad Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: View of Zambezi River, South Africa, from a boat tour. The railroad bridge is in the far background.
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Victoria Falls 3

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Victoria Falls, South Africa, looking down at the Zambezi River.
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Livingstone Island

Date: 1910
Description: Doctor Thorne was one of the members of Carrie's travel party. He is pictured here, in front of Victoria Falls on Livingstone Island.

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