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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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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 Cleaning Machine

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

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

Date: 10 1986
Description: Cranberry harvest.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1989
Description: Cranberry harvest at Manitowish Waters.
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Cranberry Quality Control

Date: 10 1969
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.
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Cranberry Ditches

Date: 1935
Description: Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips.
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Building Cranberry Bog with T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1937
Description: Men building a cranberry marsh using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on the farm of Oscar O. Potter. The tractor is pulling a "turnover...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Harvesting Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...

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