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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Plenty Potatoes

Date: 1912
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 ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Giant Potatoes

Date: 1949
Description: Photomontage of a man riding three giant potatoes, which are resting on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. A group of three onlookers stare up at the man. Black t...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Potatoes Grow Big in Our State

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a man, wearing overalls, sitting on a mound of giant potatoes resting on a flatbed horse-drawn cart. The man is sitting sideways, holding t...
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
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"A Load of Montana Spuds"

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Description: A view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon which is loaded with giant, six-foot-high potatoes, probably to be used as a tall-tale postcard. Caption reads:...
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Digging Potatoes

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Description: Men and a young boy digging potatoes in a field.
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Potatoes at Chicago Dump

Date: 1917
Description: Thousands of potatoes dumped from a freight train along a rail embankment. There is a cow in the background foraging. Original caption reads, "Many thousan...
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Starch Factory

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks...
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1895
Description: A bearded man stands in a vegetable garden holding a hat full of potatoes. There is a carriage with a team of horses on the road beside the garden.
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Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Potato Digger

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using a team of two horses to pull a potato digger in a field.
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Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View down field of harvested potatoes. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on the left and looking down at a basket of potatoes. More baskets of potat...
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Field of Harvested Potatoes

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn potato digger in a field. Baskets of harvested potatoes are scattered among the rows.
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Potato Digger

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: View across field of harvested potatoes towards a man using a horse-drawn potato digger. There are other people in the background, and baskets of harvested...
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Man Driving Tractor Pulling Potato Planter

Date: 11 04 1926
Description: Rear view of a man driving a tractor pulling a potato planter in a field. There is a wagon or truck parked in the background on the left. A dog in the fiel...
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Men in Field Harvesting Potatoes

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Description: View of a group of men and boys standing in a field. They are harvesting potatoes with horses and horse-drawn implements. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Mule Drawn Potator Diggers

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A man is sitting on a mule-drawn potato digger in a field. A child is standing on the far left.

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