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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
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...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Cranberry Pickers

Date: 1905
Description: Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries.
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
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...
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Harvesting Cranberries

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Description: Harvesting cranberries by hand somewhere in central Wisconsin.
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Unloading Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Dumping a truckload of freshly harvested cranberries.
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Cranberry Harvester

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Description: Cranberry harvesting machine on the property of the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company in Wisconsin Rapids.
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Cranberry Drying Sheds

Date: 09 1934
Description: Cranberry drying sheds.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: Harvesting cranberries at the Cranberry Lake Lake Development Company in Wood County.
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Loading Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: A crew of agricultural workers loads boxes of cranberries for transport to the drying sheds.
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Making a New Cranberry Bog

Date: 06 1938
Description: Construction of a leadgate to control the water flow in a new cranberry section at the Cranberry Lake Development Company in Price County.
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Cranberry Warehouse

Date: 09 1934
Description: View of a cranberry marsh and warehouse. In the foreground is a warehouse for the storage of harvested cranberries.
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Cranberry Cleaning Machine

Date: 09 1934
Description: Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.
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Cranberry Dusting

Date: 08 1936
Description: Airplane owned by the Agricultural Dusting Service of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, dusting a cranberry marsh in Wood County for leaf hoppers. The photographer ...
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Cranberry Pickers

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Description: Wisconsin cranberry pickers, mostly women and children.
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Cranberry Spraying

Date: 1940
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 ...
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Cranberry Industry Equipment

Date: 1940
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 ...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 10 1986
Description: Cranberry harvest.
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Warrens Cranberry Fest

Date: 1998
Description: Not only does the cranberry industry produce cranberries, but it is also a source of tourists during the colorful harvest season.

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