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Promotional Circular of Young Woman Picking Cherries

Date: 1925
Description: Promotional circular announcing the 1926 calendar for McCormick-Deering farm machinery. The calendar features a young woman looking coyly over her shoulder...
Photograph

J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company

Date: 09 21 1922
Description: Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ...
Photograph

Banana Display Window at A & P

Date: 05 11 1928
Description: Banana display window at A & P, 1355 Williamson Street.
Book or Pamphlet

Make the Garden Pay

Date: 01 20 1928
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an illustration of a basket ...
Photograph

Boy with Peaches

Date: 1929
Description: A boy grinning while gathering peaches in his arms in the orchard of N.Y. Yates.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Photograph

Cherry Picking

Date: 1921
Description: A woman with a bucket clipped to her belt holds up a cluster of cherries in a cherry orchard.
Photograph

Banana Trucks in front of Commercial Building

Date: 06 02 1926
Description: Two men stand next to International trucks marked "Bananas" and decorated with American flags parked outside a commercial building.
Photograph

Woman Eating Canned Food

Date: 05 1926
Description: A woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace is sitting at a table to eat canned corn and peaches.
Book or Pamphlet

Sources of the Gross Income of Wisconsin Farms

Date: 1929
Description: Pie chart showing the sources of gross income for Wisconsin farms in 1927.
Photograph

Children with Apples

Date: 09 1923
Description: Three girls and a boy posing for a group portrait in an apple orchard. Two of the girls, possibly twins, are sitting in bushel baskets on either side of a ...
Photograph

Vendors at City Market

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of men standing around vendor trucks parked at the city fruit market in front of commercial buildings. A building in the background has a sig...
Photograph

Woman Pouring Syrup Over Peaches

Date: 07 1926
Description: Woman preserving peaches in a kitchen at "Harvester Farm." She is pouring hot syrup from a pot over a spoon into glass jars filled with the fruit.
Photograph

Woman Using Fruit Press

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop.
Photograph

Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Photograph

Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 30 1925
Description: Men loading bushels of fruit and vegetables onto the back of a Model 63 International truck owned by the McCray & Hunter company. A loading dock of a brick...
Photograph

Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 22 1925
Description: A man unloads a bushel basket of fruits and vegetables from the back of a Model S International truck owned by Louis Tauco. The man is making deliveries in...
Photograph

Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy"

Date: 1921
Description: Henry Peck, the "bad boy" played by Jackie Coogan, is caught with his hand in the apple barrel by a police officer in this scene still from the silent film...
Photograph

Loading Boat for Chicago

Date: 09 1925
Description: Large cargo ship operated by the Benton Transit Company. On the dock near an open shed are many bushels of fruit, including melons and tomatoes (according ...
Photograph

Roadside Fruit Stand

Date: 09 1924
Description: Two men are standing on opposite sides of a table full of small crates of fruit, possibly apples (?). The original caption reads: "Roadside market scene."

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