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| Date: | 07 06 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing in field of high clover. |
| Date: | 09 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a male worker in a field demonstrating a cultivator for the McKay Nursery. Other workers are in the field in the background. |
| Date: | 08 02 1926 |
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| Description: | Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Field workers gathering and spearing cut tobacco leaves. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Lula Lawrence, lsft, and Esther Gunderson combing hemp fibers. In the background two women are sorting hemp fiber bundles for rope and cordage during Worl... |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Two girls, holding turkey feathers, are watching the production line at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, where two women workers are plucking turkeys. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Female workers on the production line at Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, plucking turkeys. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Man (Mr. Goodyear?) holding a muskmelon in an agricultural field. |
| Date: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Carole Ballinger, Joyce Anderson, and Nancy Toepfer detassel corn as part of their summer jobs. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | At the center of the photograph is Ricardo Enriquez of Mercedes, Texas. He is at a grape boycott picket with other students. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the grape boycott. A woman stands on the sidewalk speaking at a microphone... |
| Date: | 09 17 1954 |
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| Description: | A.T. Rose (left), director of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, conferring with Don Larin, farm placement chief of the United States Employment Servi... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A priest says mass in support of migrant farm workers during a grape boycott. |
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