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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
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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 ...
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Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
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Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon...
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Harvesting Corn

Date: 1902
Description: A farmer is using a corn binder, while two other men are collecting the shocks. A farmhouse is in the background with several individuals standing on the p...
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Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
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Binding Oats

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers are shown binding oats using horse-drawn equipment. A team of five horses are pulling agricultural equipment, and another team...
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Wheat Field

Date: 1915
Description: A man poses in a wheat field in the vicinity of Tulsa. The field has been recently harvested, and bundles of wheat sit in rows.
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Harvesting Wheat

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of agricultural workers using two teams of horses to pull harvesting machinery in a wheat field in the vicinity of Twin Falls. Harvested whea...
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Threshing Wheat

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural workers are shown threshing wheat in a field in the vicinity of Tulsa. The processed wheat is being piled near the equipment. The machine near...
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Threshing Oats

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural workers in a large field in the process of threshing oats, in the vicinity of Tulsa. Piles of oats waiting to be processed are in the field.
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Harvesting Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers mowing and baling bottom land alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. The operation utilizes horse-drawn farm equipment. A barn and ...
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Baling Hay

Date: 1915
Description: Several agricultural workers are shown baling hay in the vicinity of Tulsa.
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Stacking Alfalfa

Date: 1915
Description: Two agricultural workers use machinery to stack alfalfa in the vicinity of Tulsa. One man stands on the large pile while another uses a pulley device to st...
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Picking Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in the vicinity of Shawnee. Several children are in the field. The cotton is being loaded into a horse-drawn...
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Young Man Riding a Mule

Date: 1900
Description: A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane.
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Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View of three Trappist monks from Our Lady of the Valley abbey harvesting apples. Two men are standing on ladders and picking the fruit, while the third ma...
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Woman Raking Cranberries

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.

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