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Turkey-drawn Wagon

Date: 1910
Description: A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben...
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Husking Corn

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Description: Families sit amid piles of corn and remove the husks in the Meskovesd district near Budapest, Hungary.
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Senator Proxmire and Constituents

Date: 1970
Description: Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with constituents at the Wisconsin State Fair while eating an ear of corn.
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Checking Corn Kernels

Date: 1969
Description: Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts.
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Mrs. Harford in Garden

Date: 1930
Description: Cyanotype view of Mrs. Harford sitting in pumpkin and corn in her garden on Madeline Island.
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Boys Corn Club Contest

Date: 05 1911
Description: Jeffie Duncan, winner of first prize in corn contest, and calf, Lawn Mower, stand before tent exhibiting the Boys Corn Club Contest.
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Korn Kids

Date: 01 1914
Description: Class of Boys who attended a 10-Day Course at the college of Agriculture, Madison. The course began on January 26th, 1914 with an opening speech by Profess...
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Corn Contest Prize Winners

Date: 05 1911
Description: Six young men, winners of the Wisconsin No. 7 corn contest, pose in front of tent. From left to right: Ray Peterson, Everett Palmer, Earl Ward, Herbert Ec...
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Corn Exhibit

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of men examining ears of Wisconsin No. 7 corn on exhibit. Students were given the seeds and encouraged to enter the resulting crop in the con...
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Corn Exhibit

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Description: Ears of corn on display under a striped tent. Three men are behind the tent near a building.
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Family Garden

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Description: A family garden in a company town for the Consolidation Coal Co. Five people are displaying their produce among the garden and the nearby buildings.
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Seminole Women Grinding Corn

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Description: A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt...
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Harvesting Corn

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Description: Three men in a cornfield, mid-harvest. One of the men is seated on a horse-drawn harvester. "McCormick Chicago" (rest of text illegible) can be read on the...
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Men Posing in Cornfield

Date: 1915
Description: Two men pose in a cornfield with very tall corn stalks.
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Bins of Corn

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Description: A man stands near two large piles of harvested corn. The corn is held in place with wire. Caption reads: "A Bunch Of Corn Raised Near Clovis, N. Mex."
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Stacking Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Two agricultural workers use machinery to stack alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. One man stands on the large pile while another uses a pulley device to st...
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Baling Broom Corn

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Description: Two men standing near bound bales of corn stalks on a wharf. A train car is visible in the background. Caption reads: "Baleing[sic] Broom Corn, Shattuck, O...
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Dunbar's Camp

Date: 1900
Description: View downhill toward four men standing on the side of the road, with two men leaning against a fence, and one sitting on the fence. To the right is a cornf...
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Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
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Loading Corn into Silo

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Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...

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