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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

Date: 
Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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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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Man and Woman in Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Ceylon Carrie records: "Both men and women wear a sort of skirt made of a straight piece of cloth wound around the body." Here, a man i...
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Indian Agricultural Implements

Date: 1930
Description: Ears of corn with their husks braided together for drying are arranged over farming tools, including a sharpened stick, rake, hoe and a cultivator made fro...
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Planting Corn

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses.
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Preparing a Seed Bed

Date: 1925
Description: An Ojibwe man is standing and holding the reins of his team of two horses hitched to a harrow. Two boys are standing behind him. In the background are leaf...

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