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UFW Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Milwaukee Grape Boycott Picketers

Date: 1969
Description: Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc...
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Madison UFW Benefit at People's Park

Date: 1969
Description: A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th...
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Harvesting Tomatoes in Rio Grande Valley

Date: 1970
Description: Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley.

Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ...

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Jon P. Wilcox Crossing Picket Line

Date: 1969
Description: Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon...
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Apple Cider Making

Date: 1960
Description: Louis Suttner and another man making apple cider.
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Apple Cider Making

Date: 1960
Description: Louis Suttner and another man make apple cider outdoors.
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
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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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Red Currant Garden

Date: 09 07 1895
Description: A garden of red currant bushes, owned by Jas. S. Ritchie, are featured on his fruit farm.
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Blue Plum Tree

Date: 08 1895
Description: A man poses with his four-year-old Lombard blue plum tree in his fruit orchard in Sawyer, near Door County. The image of the man appears to be composited i...
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Pie Plants in Garden

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: A garden lush with tall pie plants (rhubarb) belonging to Mrs. H.H. Wooledge. One stalk is leaning against a wooden chair, and the leaf of the plant reachi...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: Young men and woman pose with baskets and pails, and a girl stands by her bicycle at the Hotz cherry orchard. There are baskets, lids, and boxes of cherrie...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: A man and three women pick cherries. Each has a small bucket tied around their waist.
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, center, and two of his daughters, on the right, pick cherries with others in the family's orchard. They have small pail...
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Blue Plum Tree (negative)

Date: 08 1985
Description: A negative version of Blue Plum Tree, illustrating the staining and composite nature of the original negative.
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Man with Horse and Buggy

Date: 1900
Description: Man standing in front of barbed wire fence with an orchard behind him. He is holding a branch of leaves and what appears to be fruit. The horse and the bug...

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