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Sunkist Lemon Display At National Food Store

Date: 04 04 1956
Description: Refrigerated grocery display of lemons, bottled lemon juice, and canned tuna fish. The display signs indicate they are Sunkist lemons and are selling for ...
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Pontiac Potatoes

Date: 09 1984
Description: "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ...
Photograph

Ripe Pumpkin Field

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: In the cornfield of Jas. E. Seed, a number of large, yellow "Yankee" pumpkins ripen on vines. A man is crouched in the field, holding a pumpkin in his arms...
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Thayer Fruit and Vegetable Farm

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Men displaying produce, a large cabbage and a bushel of potatoes, while standing in the gardens of the Thayer farm. Cabbage, onion, currant, and raspberry ...
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The Scott Fruit Company C-20 Truck

Date: 01 13 1936
Description: A man loads fruit crates onto the back of an International truck owned by the Scott Fruit Company Limited. Behind him is a ventilated refrigerator railroad...
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Kapec Orchard's New Market

Date: 01 04 1958
Description: Exterior view of the newly opened orchard stand at Kapec Orchard on Verona Road. The sign across the front of the building advertises fresh apples, sweet c...
Print

Maquinas Para Patatas

Date: 
Description: Spanish language advertisement for potato planting equipment, featuring two photographs of men planting in a field. The headline reads, "Maquinas para Pata...
Photograph

IH Passenger Bus en route in El Salvador

Date: 1968
Description: This photograph was likely taken by the International Harvester Overseas Division for promotional purposes. The original caption to the photograph reads: "...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 623-632

Date: 
Description: In God we Trust assorted needs

The complex amplitudes and waste
are never balanced, only tasted
Photograph

Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
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Children Posed with Produce

Date: 1910
Description: Two children posed on porch steps with assorted garden produce. Probably from the International Harvester Co. Educational Extension Project.
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Municipal Market

Date: 1918
Description: Farm produce for sale from farm trucks at the Municipal Market on the Capitol Square. The Municipal market was established by a committee of women in July,...
Photograph

Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...
Photograph

Workers at Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t...
Photograph

Delivering Fresh Produce

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man and child posing standing next to a wagon pulled by a team of two horses, surrounded by pumpkins and other produce in crates.
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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 ...
Photograph

Market Scene

Date: 1910
Description: A market stall with an array of fruits, vegetables, fish, and flowers. The shop keeper is sitting in the center just behind a wooden post. In her journal f...
Photograph

William Turvill in Rowboat Carrying Farm Produce

Date: 1897
Description: View over water towards William Turvill, rowing a boat loaded with farm produce in wooden crates and baskets. There is a tree-lined shoreline in the backgr...
Print

O.R. Pieper Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the O.R. Pieper Company, with a left-hand side bar with color illustrations of "Bright-Spot" brand canned foods: various fruits and vegetable...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Corn on the Great Lakes

Date: 1923
Description: This map includes an explanation that reads: "This chart shows the movement of corn on the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and New York State Barge Canal ...

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