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Drainage Districts Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o...
Photograph

Indian Rocks Fruit Store

Date: 1935
Description: H.D. Ulmer stands behind the counter of his Indian Rocks brand fruit basket gift shop. The original caption reads: "H.D. Ulmer, owner of 75-acre farm near ...
Photograph

Extension Agent at Potato World

Date: 1990
Description: County farm extension agent talks with Potato World employees.
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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...
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Corn Testing Station

Date: 1916
Description: Men work at tables in the Corn Testing Station conducted by Black Hawk County Crop Improvement Association. Corn cobs are held in wire storage racks along ...
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 623-632

Date: 
Description: In God we Trust assorted needs

The complex amplitudes and waste
are never balanced, only tasted
Photograph

Workers at Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t...
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Men with Five Quality Brands of Potatoes

Date: 1941
Description: Mr. S.M. Hart, (left), supervisor of the C. and C. potato shed is proudly displaying samples of their prize potatoes now being bagged for shipment to Don F...
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Elisha D. Smith

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait of Elisha Smith sitting. He is wearing a long coat and resting his arm on a table.

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