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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw... |
| 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: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Dumping a truckload of freshly harvested cranberries. |
| Date: | 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Airplane owned by the Agricultural Dusting Service of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, dusting a cranberry marsh in Wood County for leaf hoppers. The photographer ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An underwater clipper used by a Wisconsin cranberry grower between 1930 and 1940. This photograph was probably taken near Wisconsin Rapids, perhaps on the ... |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | Not only does the cranberry industry produce cranberries, but it is also a source of tourists during the colorful harvest season. |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Description: | Cranberry harvest at Warrens, the self-proclaimed cranberry capital of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | As the recently-harvested cranberries move past them on a conveyor belt, they are inspected for quality by a work force made up primarily of women. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Bee hives near the Bennett cranberry marshes. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A cranberry rake used for the manual harvest of cranberries. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Asa Curtis Bennett family holding cranberry rakes and other manual farm implements. The family is gathered around an owl standing on the ground in front of... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man loading freshly harvested cranberries into processing machinery. The machine appears to separate the berries from leaves and other d... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Lunch counter during harvest season at a Wisconsin cranberry marsh. Cranberry pickers enjoy a break and lunch during the busy harvest season. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | From left to right: W.A. Riordan, John Buck, Leo Sorenson, Jean Nash and Del Hammond. Miss Nash, the owner of the cranberry marsh, escorts representatives ... |
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