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Elderly Woman Picking Turnips

Date: 02 23 1915
Description: Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I...
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W.H. Milward Iris Garden

Date: 06 04 1933
Description: W.H. Milward iris garden at 5017 Odana Road, Coney Weston Farm.
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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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Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
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Family Weeding Garden

Date: 08 1914
Description: John Van Ness and his niece and nephew removing weeds from their "truck patch." Mr. Van Ness is using a hoe.
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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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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...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn...
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Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.
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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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Landscaping of Legge Memorial Cottage

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of cottage and garden landscaping on the Katherine Legge Memorial Farm.
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Mongrel Poultry Flock

Date: 05 1925
Description: A woman using a metal pail to feed a mixed flock of chickens in front of several wooden farm buildings, and what appears to be a garden plot.
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Fall Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A woman and man work in a fall garden on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm.
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Laundry Line

Date: 1920
Description: Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse.
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Bonack Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Leo and Helen Bonack, at W2472 Hwy TW (Section 6), have lived here for 38 years. Cows were last milked in 1960.
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Dyer Garden

Date: 2004
Description: Is this a modern sculpture in the Dyer yard? No, Pam uses these ladders for her bean plants.
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Grulke Trellis

Date: 2004
Description: Fritz and Sandy Grulke have a nice trellis at the entrance to their garden.

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