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Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
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Bobbing for Apples

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Description: Child "bobs" for apples at a "Pioneer Day Festival."
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Father and Daughter in Orchard with International Truck

Date: 1952
Description: Publicity photograph showing a little girl sitting on the running board of an International R-series pickup truck and eating an apple while her father pick...
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Family Farmers Market

Date: 07 27 1988
Description: Cousins set up a road-side stand to sell fruits and vegetables grown by their grandfather.
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Farmer Poses with Watermelon aboard Cotton Picker

Date: 1944
Description: Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif...
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Three Lost Children

Date: 06 26 1933
Description: Three lost children are sitting on the running board of a car and eating bananas. Left to right: Bobbie Simpson, 5, Vina Mae Simpson, 4, Harold Ring, 4. Th...
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International Wholesale Fruit Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c...
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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
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Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
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Apple Stand

Date: 10 09 1963
Description: Couple arranging varieties of apples and jugs of cider at their roadside stand near Mukwonago.
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B.F. Hahn and Family Picnic

Date: 1876
Description: Benjamin F. Hahn, his wife Mary and their servant Sarah Hill sit around a table with an intricately patterned cloth with bowls of apples and grapes. The wo...
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Family around Adorned Table

Date: 1878
Description: Two women, a young girl, two boys and a man are gathered around a table that has fruit displayed on plates. The man is sitting in an office chair. The fram...
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Nels Dahl Family

Date: 1871
Description: The Nels Dahl family posing in front of their home on Main Street in DeForest. From left to right they are: Emma, Ingeborg Ronjum Dahl, Ida, Bertha, Tina, ...
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Family on Entryway Steps

Date: 1874
Description: Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova...
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Skavlem Family

Date: 1875
Description: The Skavlem family is around the table at the home of Lars H. Skavlem. A cloth, books, a vase of flowers and fruit are on the table. The two men on the r...
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L.E. Johnson and B.F. Halin

Date: 1876
Description: Family, including a woman, young man and man sitting around table in a yard, with a two-story stone house with a porch on at least two sides. A young girl ...
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W.A. Oppel Grocery

Date: 1896
Description: Grocers standing in front of the W.A. Oppel Grocery located at 116 East Main Street. The five men are standing on the sidewalk among bine and crates displa...
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Grocery Store on Main Street

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Description: O.C. O'Hearn Grocery Store, Main Street, with the front window filled with apples, and a man standing in the doorway. Another man is standing on the sidewa...
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Group under Grape Arbor

Date: 1899
Description: Mr. Henry and Mrs. Ella Hoffman with unidentified couple under a grape arbor.
Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Garden

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st...

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