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Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Photograph

Vendors (?) at Outdoor Market

Date: 1915
Description: One man and two women on an urban sidewalk with baskets of produce. The man's basket is decorated with white stars on a dark field. The people are probably...
Photograph

Young Girl with Baskets of Produce in Outdoor Market

Date: 1915
Description: Young girl wrapping or unwrapping produce from baskets on an urban street, possibly in Chicago, Illinois. The girl is likely offering the produce. A boy an...
Photograph

Selling Watermelons out of International A-4 Truck

Date: 1932
Description: Merchant Charles Jankowski and a customer standing among stacks of watermelons at a roadside produce stand. Mr. Jankowki's International Model A-4 truck is...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Girl at Vegetable Stand

Date: 1917
Description: Girl selling vegetables to a customer at vegetable stand along Milwaukee pike. Original caption reads: "The little girl in charge sold over $800 worth of v...
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Woman in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Woman handling tomato plants in a vegetable garden.
Photograph

Wrecked Frank Fruit Co. Truck

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: A Frank Fruit Co. truck sits in a garage after a traffic accident that destroyed the front end of the vehicle.
Photograph

Eggelson Produce Company

Date: 08 09 1929
Description: Eggelson Produce Company, 102 S. Dickinson.
Photograph

Plant and Food Display

Date: 09 26 1928
Description: Copy of a photo of plant and food display of the "Great Northern Seed Company."
Photograph

Drainage Districts Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o...
Photograph

Rock County Display Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Rock County farm crops exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Loading Onions into International L-160 Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Vie across drive towards two men loading bags of onions into an International L-160 truck parked outside a garage or storage shed. Pumpkins are stacked on ...
Photograph

Street Market in Russia

Date: 1910
Description: Men, women, and children in a street market with baskets of produce in Russia, probably near Lubertzy.
Photograph

Farmall B Tractor Hauling Produce

Date: 1946
Description: Man pulling a trailer with a Farmall B tractor on the farm of C.H. Meyerling. The trailer is loaded with tomatoes. A young man is standing next to another ...
Photograph

View of 400 Block of State Street

Date: 1929
Description: View of T. Gullman Shoes, Simon Brothers Vegetables, and H.J. Minch Flour, Feed, Grain and Hay on the north corner of the 400 block of State Street. There ...
Photograph

Kraut Fest Celebrities

Date: 07 26 1981
Description: Maynard Entringer of South Milwaukee is awarded the World Championship of the Kraut Eating Contest by the Queen of the Kraut Festival, Sharon Kerkman of Bu...
Photograph

Dairy Farm, Aerial View

Date: 1934
Description: Aerial view of the Jones dairy farm, Fort Atkinson, in winter. The Rock River is in the background.
Photograph

Aerial View of Rosholt

Date: 1965
Description: Aerial view, looking west, with potato warehouses in the foreground and a pallet factory and junkyard behind them at right.
Photograph

Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California.

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