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| Date: | 10 11 1938 |
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| Description: | A 10-20 orchard and grove tractor pulls a McCormick-Deering 14-A disk and duster owned by Mackay Estates Ltd. A man is using the duster to apply pesticide ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three men operating an International I-14 industrial tractor and a 300-gallon beam sprayer in an apple orchard. One man is sitting on the tractor while the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men are operating an International I-14 tractor and a beam sprayer. One man is sitting on the tractor while the other man is standing and operating the... |
| Date: | 06 01 1938 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a stand on top of a tank pulled by a T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The man is using a Hardie Mogul sprayer with a regular 400-gallon ... |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
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| Description: | Two men spray trees for pests. One man is driving a tractor pulling a tank, while the other man follows behind holding a high pressure hose spraying the li... |
| Date: | 09 20 1924 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a platform made of wood while using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a grove of fruit trees. Another man stands on the back, and another man... |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Acme White Lead & Color Works of Detroit, Michigan, which as part of its business produced insecticides for farm and home garden applicat... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s... |
| Date: | 08 1923 |
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| Description: | Man spraying pesticide(?) on a tree in an orchard. Original Caption: "Copy negative loaned by Niagara Sprayer Company. No negative." |
| Date: | 07 1990 |
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| Description: | "Mark Lifke sprays corn in a field on Warner Road." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on top of what appears to be a sprayer, probably for use in orchards (though the urban setting suggests the possibility of other appli... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two young children working barefoot in a field. J.C. Allen. |
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