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Bobbing for Apples

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Description: Child "bobs" for apples at a "Pioneer Day Festival."
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Harvesting Strawberries

Date: 07 1937
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...
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Migrant Cherry Pickers

Date: 1963
Description: Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,...
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Interior of a Cider Mill

Date: 1879
Description: Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left.
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Immigrants with Christmas Tree

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Description: A group of immigrants pose in front of a tall Christmas tree at Ellis Island.
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Agricultural Demonstration

Date: 1909
Description: Demonstration of spraying fruit trees by the Agricultural Extension.
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Unpacking Apples

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of people eat and help unload crates of apples from a U-Haul trailer in the campground area of the Sound Storm music festival during the constructi...
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Pakistani Boats

Date: 1951
Description: Overhead view of Doonga houseboats on the Jhelum River in Pakistan.
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Cherry Picking

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Description: Men and boys stand between rows of trees, picking cherries. Some of them are holding buckets and standing on ladders.
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Amacoy Lake Resort

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Description: A mother, father, and son pose outside of a cabin at Amacoy Lake Resort. The woman and boy are holding pint berry boxes of fruit.
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Sarajevo Street

Date: 11 1940
Description: A street scene in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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Watermelon Time

Date: 1900
Description: View of a family posed with slices of watermelon sitting in the yard near a log cabin. There is a large mortar and pestle in the right foreground.
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Milwaukee Picketers Supporting Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A group of picketers supporting the nationwide United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott in front of Kroger Supermarket. Picketers are carrying signs that s...
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Wisconsin Woman Picketing for Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A woman wearing a paisley dress is carrying a United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO sign in front of a Kroger store that reads, "Honor Picket Line/ National Cou...
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Door County Apple Orchard

Date: 08 19 1895
Description: The family of Joseph Zettel sits under a flowering apple tree. The family grows the Duchess of Oldenburg apple variety in their orchard three miles north o...

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