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| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | A crew of agricultural workers loads boxes of cranberries for transport to the drying sheds. |
| Date: | 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Picking strawberries on the farm of Earl Leverich in Monroe County. The Leverich family were leaders in commercial fruit growing in Wisconsin and Earl Lev... |
| Date: | 09 1938 |
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| Description: | A farmer stringing tobacco somewhere in southern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | Construction of a leadgate to control the water flow in a new cranberry section at the Cranberry Lake Development Company in Price County. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn power sprayer being used on truck crops in the Racine area. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin cranberry pickers, mostly women and children. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery. |
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| Description: | A Phillippine Islands boy is using a sharp tool to cut down a manila plant, while another young boy is supporting it. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
| Date: | 10 30 1909 |
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| Description: | A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men, one wearing overalls and one wearing suspenders, stand on top of a mound of giant potatoes. A large cart drawn by two horses carries the potatoes ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two men standing over an open cellar door, attempting to push a giant root vegetable into it. Two women with brooms are holding a baby by t... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of two men with a logging crosscut saw cutting a giant ear of corn. A mound of giant corn stands beside them. There is a barn in the backgroun... |
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