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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Threshing Grain

Date: 1950
Description: A stationary McCormick-Deering thresher in action at the E.J. Shuster Farm.
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Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
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McCormick Farmall Tractor H with a 14-P Pull-Type Corn Picker

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man picking corn with a McCormick Farmall H tractor, a McCormick 14-P pull-type corn picker and a wagon. The photograph was tak...
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McCormick Farmall M Tractor and McCormick 2-M Mounted Corn Picker

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of a farmer in a cornfield operating a McCormick 2-M mounted corn picker attached to a McCormick Farmall M tractor. Farm buildings are in the...
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McCormick No. 51 Hillside Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1950
Description: Two men harvesting wheat with an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a No. 51 hillside harvester-thresher (combine). Mountains are in the far b...
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International Truck and McCormick Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1950
Description: Man working in a field with an International truck and a McCormick harvester-thresher (combine).
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Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View of three Trappist monks from Our Lady of the Valley abbey harvesting apples. Two men are standing on ladders and picking the fruit, while the third ma...
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Cranberry Pickers with Crates

Date: 1950
Description: African American cranberry harvesters, possibly migrant workers, posing with crates of cranberries.
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Grading Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: Machinery used for grading cranberries. As the berries move through the machine the are sorted by size and deposited on the appropriate conveyor belt for p...
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Simpson's Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with harvested corn in corn shocks in the field. Tree-lined hills are in the background. Text on reverse of imag...
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Door County Church

Date: 1950
Description: A church with a dark steeple is set on top of a hill above a field with shocks of grain. Trees are on the left and right.
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1950
Description: A man is harvesting potatoes using a John Deere tractor and a John Deere single row potato harvester.
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Haying

Date: 1950
Description: Haying on the farm with dramatic clouds in the background. The John Deere tractor is pulling the chopper as it empties into a wagon.

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