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Elderly Woman Picking Turnips

Date: 02 23 1915
Description: Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: One of the Squash

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ...
Photograph

People Stand around Display of Vegetables

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Adults and children stand around a vegetable stand under a covered booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. Behind the booth is a tent, and in the far background...
Photograph

Unloading Grapefruit

Date: 04 11 1935
Description: Elevated view of a man opening a door on the side of an International Model C-40 truck to empty grapefruit into an adjacent bin. The truck was owned by Cal...
Photograph

Cabbage Garden

Date: 
Description: A view of two men standing and working in a garden in the Canadian Yukon Territory. Caption reads: "A Klondyke Garden, Dawson, Y.T."
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Men Transporting Produce

Date: 05 21 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to haul two wagons loaded with burlap bags of farm produce, possibly oranges. The tractor drives along a di...
Photograph

Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
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Vegetable Farm

Date: 05 2019
Description: View of the vegetable garden at a vegetable farm outside of Palmer. There is a barn and a log structure in the background.

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