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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
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Woelfel Haystack

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Description: View of a farmer from top of straw stack. The man uses a fork to push down the straw as more is being blown onto the pile from a thresher. More men in work...
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Orchard Pesticide Application

Date: 06 1939
Description: A man smoking a cigarette drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor as another man stands on the tank of an attached 150-gallon sprayer while applying pesti...
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Spraying Fruit Trees

Date: 09 20 1924
Description: A man stands on a platform made of wood while using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a grove of fruit trees. Another man stands on the back, and another man...
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Pesticide Sprayer

Date: 06 29 1939
Description: Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can...
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Reforestation with 15-30 Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Men use a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and a "reforestation machine" as they plant trees for timber production.
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Men with Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: Three men pose on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor outfitted with an orchard sprayer in front of a grove of trees.
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Orchard Sprayer

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ...
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Pesticide Application

Date: 05 17 1929
Description: A man drives an International tractor through an orchard while another man uses an orchard sprayer to apply what is probably pesticide to the trees.
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Pesticide Application at Night

Date: 1929
Description: Two men use a McCormick-Deering tractor and an orchard sprayer to apply pesticide to trees at night.
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Flock of White Turkeys

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Description: View of a flock of turkeys at a turkey farm. A worker can be seen pouring feed into large feed-buckets using a machine. The text on the side of the feed-bu...
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Plymouth in 1622

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Description: Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891.
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Home of Governor Bradford

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Description: Reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams of the home of Governor Bradford in 1621. Exterior view features logs, a thatched roof, a chimney, and a surro...
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Frank Otto Threshing Crew

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Description: A group of farmer workers stand with pitch forks in front of the first gas engine for threshing on the August Krenke farm. A horse-drawn vehicle is also vi...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
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Men Working in Cranberry Bog

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Description: Men working in Wisconsin cranberry bog. Possibly combing the vines. In the background are long, open air sheds packed with crates.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Wild Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 14 1910
Description: William Meuer and friends identified as "the Hansens" picking cranberries on Mason Lake.
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Dry Cranberry Picking

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Description: Cranberry pickers in a Wisconsin marsh. The pickers include women and children.

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