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Children Toil in Community Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets.
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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Woman in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Woman handling tomato plants in a vegetable garden.
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Family in Cabbage Field near Farmhouse

Date: 1873
Description: In the foreground, a family is standing and sitting in a garden with cabbages, corn and other crops. Behind them is a one-story frame house and a hops dry...
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Farm with Traditional Norwegian Sval House

Date: 1870
Description: People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg...
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Couple in Garden

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of a couple standing in a garden. The woman holds an open parasol. The frame house behind has draped curtains and shades pulled on second sto...
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Carla Burton Residence

Date: 1872
Description: Two women and a man stand in a garden that has trellises with Greek Revival frame house in background. The house has a small one story addition in back. Fa...
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Couple in Garden Walkway

Date: 1873
Description: A man, and a woman who has open parasol are standing in a garden walkway with a frame house in the background. There are three chimneys and small windows a...
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Senator R.E. Davis's Residence

Date: 1872
Description: View from across the road of a picket fence, a garden with an arched trellis and a couple on the porch of a frame house. The house has wood trim on the por...
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Belle Case La Follette Working in the Garden

Date: 1907
Description: Belle Case La Follette hoeing the garden at Maple Bluff Farm in early spring. Two of her children are working with her, apparently planting seeds, and one ...
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Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
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Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide

Date: 06 1923
Description: Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
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Two Women Overlooking a Garden

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Description: Two women stand in the distance overlooking a garden on a farm.
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Marinette County Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ...
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Family on Porch of Frame House

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Description: A portrait of a family of seven seated on the porch of a frame house. Farm buildings can be seen in the background.
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A Boy and Dog with Toy Tractor

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Description: A young boy and his little dog sit together on a toy tractor in a driveway behind a parked car.
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Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
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Family Garden

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Description: A family garden in a company town for the Consolidation Coal Co. Five people are displaying their produce among the garden and the nearby buildings.
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Workers' Unity House Garden

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Description: A view of the garden, with four men tending to the plants. In the background to the left are two large outbuildings connected by a smaller structure.
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Workers' Unity House Garden

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Description: A view of the garden, with various structures in the background.

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