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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California.
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Shipping Carrots

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market.
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Studio Portrait of Two Young Women

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Description: A studio portrait of two young women in front of a painted backdrop. The girl sitting on the left and wearing a white dress is identified as Betty Northup....
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Woman in Cellar

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing in a cellar while taking potatoes out of a basket for storage on a shelf. Shelves on the wall behind her hold multiple...
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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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Woman Canning

Date: 1926
Description: A woman wearing an apron is removing a wire rack filled with glass canning jars from a boiler on a Coleman Pressure Range on International Harvester's Hins...
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries.
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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...
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Woman Steaming Spinach

Date: 07 17 1926
Description: Woman steaming spinach in a hot-water bath on a Coleman Pressure Range at the Harvester Farm. The image is part of a series illustrating canning methods.
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Husking and Silking Corn

Date: 07 1926
Description: A woman and a girl sitting at a table, husking and silking corn at the Harvester Farm. The image is one of a series illustrating canning methods.
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

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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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Meeting Regarding Migrant Workers Aid

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Four women interested in migrant workers are shown examining foods picked annually by migrants. They will participate in a meeting sponsored by Covenant Pr...
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Mrs. J.L. Hill Checking Records

Date: 1941
Description: Mrs. J.L. Hill checking and keeping records of car numbers and sacks of Lerdoo Long White potato crop as it reaches the potato shed from the field.

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