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Dazzling Display

Date: 05 1955
Description: Apple blossoms in an orchard in the spring. Stacked logs are in the foreground.
Photograph

W.A. Holt Picking Fruit with Grandchildren

Date: 08 1927
Description: W.A. Holt is picking fruit, possibly apples, while standing on a ladder. Grandchildren Barbara Holt (left) and Arthur Holt (right) are helping. There is a ...
Photograph

Fred in Uniform

Date: 1910
Description: A standing full length photograph of Fred von der Sump in a U.S. Army uniform including a field service coat, gaiters, and hat. He is wearing pince-nez gla...
Photograph

Under the Apple Tree

Date: 05 19 1905
Description: Mae (Margaret) von der Sump is holding a branch of blossoms as she poses with her mother, Bertha, and father Frank under an apple tree in full bloom. There...
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Watermelon Seed Fight

Date: 1916
Description: Jeannette Holt, family and friends are laughing and having a watermelon seed fight in front of Island Lodge. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, unkn...
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W.A. Holt by a Fruit Tree

Date: 1916
Description: W.A. Holt is standing a field holding onto a fruit tree.
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Strawberries and First Long Trousers

Date: 06 15 1918
Description: Donald Holt, who is 16 years old, is wearing his first long trousers, marking the transition from boyhood to manhood. He is taking a strawberry that Mrs. W...
Photograph

Repairing the Road

Date: 09 10 1918
Description: It appears that a set of logs was just placed on the dirt road between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage, possibly to fix a rut. While squatting by ...
Photograph

Making Sorghum Molasses

Date: 1910
Description: Steam is rising from a "cooking pan" where sorghum juice is boiling. There is a smokestack at left and a pile of fire wood on the right. Barrels, milk cans...
Postcard

Sister Bay

Date: 1915
Description: Caption reads: "Sister Bay, near Sturgeon Bay, Wis." and "In Door County 'Cherryland,' the Nation's Largest Cherry Producer." Sister Bay from a rocky beach...
Postcard

Reeves Roadside Market

Date: 1969
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Reeves Roadside Market, Highway 14 East of Spring Green. Telephone (608)588-2744 or 588-3996. Home Grown Fruits and Vegetables in s...
Postcard

Cherry Blossoms

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Cherry Blossoms, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Thousands of acres of cherry and apple blossoms burst into bloom during the la...
Postcard

Cherry Picking Scene

Date: 07 04 1927
Description: Text on front reads: "Cherry Picking Scene, Door County, Wisconsin." A cherry orchard filled with people and people on ladders, harvesting the fruit into b...
Postcard

Cherry Trees in Bloom

Date: 1930
Description: Text on front reads: "Orchard Scene, Cherry Trees in Bloom, Door County, Wis." Elevated view of a cherry orchard with farm buildings. There are wooded hill...
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Dane County Farmers' Market

Date: 06 1988
Description: Pedestrians are looking at a display of plants for sale, and a woman is selling strawberries from under an umbrella at the Dane County Farmers' Market on t...
Poster

Bunch of Cherries on a Branch

Date: 
Description: Die-cut poster intended to promote cherries, showing a bunch of cherries on a branch with leaves.

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