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| Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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| Description: | African American field worker levels the ground with a McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor and a rotary scraper in preparation for planting a new crop of celery... |
| 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: | 07 06 1937 |
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| Description: | Beverly Lundsten and hired man Gerald Stanford pose with a Farmall F-12 tractor on the Lundsten farm. The tractor is equipped with rubber tires and a singl... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Farmers using a Farmall tractor, corn-picker and wagon in a cornfield on the farm of Robert Garst. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Man operating an experimental 2-row cotton picker built around a Farmall Regular tractor [original caption reads: "Regular Farmall & 2 row cotton picker"].... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Field workers gathering and spearing cut tobacco leaves. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon... |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Harvesting cranberries at the Cranberry Lake Lake Development Company in Wood County. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | A crew of agricultural workers loads boxes of cranberries for transport to the drying sheds. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a ribes eradication crew that was part of the white pine blister rust effort in a Barron County forest. The caption indicates tha... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A group of spectators watching a threshing demonstration with wagons and a McCormick-Deering All-Steel Thresher. |
| Date: | 06 1931 |
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| Description: | African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia. |
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