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Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
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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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International Truck Loaded with Watermelons

Date: 10 07 1938
Description: Slightly elevated view of two men loading watermelons into the back of an International D-35 truck owned by the the Redmon Grain Company. Signs advertising...
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Unloading Grapefruit

Date: 04 11 1935
Description: Elevated view of a man opening a door on the side of an International Model C-40 truck to empty grapefruit into an adjacent bin. The truck was owned by Cal...
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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...
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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...
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Funeral, Binh Hung

Date: 06 1962
Description: Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo...
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Sarajevo Street

Date: 11 1940
Description: A street scene in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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Milwaukee Picketers Supporting Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A group of picketers supporting the nationwide United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott in front of Kroger Supermarket. Picketers are carrying signs that s...
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Jon P. Wilcox Crossing Picket Line

Date: 1969
Description: Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon...
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Thayer Fruit and Vegetable Farm

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Men displaying produce, a large cabbage and a bushel of potatoes, while standing in the gardens of the Thayer farm. Cabbage, onion, currant, and raspberry ...
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Strawberry Field

Date: 1895
Description: Two men stand in a strawberry field bordered by burnt-over forest. The photographer's shadow can be seen at the bottom of the image.
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"Battle of the Century" Publicity Still

Date: 1927
Description: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy standing on a sidewalk. They are both looking at a police officer sitting on the sidewalk holding a banana peel. Laurel is hol...
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Weekly Market in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval soldiers buying fruit. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
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Spring Spraying

Date: 1952
Description: Farmer spraying a fruit tree in blossom.
Postcard

Picking Cherries at N.C. Jacobs

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Picking Cherries at N.C. Jacobs', Sawyer, Wis." An elevated view of a group of women, men and children picking cherries using ladders...
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Cherry Picking Scene

Date: 07 04 1927
Description: Text on front reads: "Cherry Picking Scene, Door County, Wisconsin." A cherry orchard filled with people and people on ladders, harvesting the fruit into b...

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