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| Date: | 04 1934 |
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| Description: | A flooded cranberry bog. In this case the bog was flooded in the spring in order to kill insects. |
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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: | Apples in baskets in front of a "farm orcharding sprayer" at R.R. Robertson's. Farm buildings are in the background. On the left is a grinding wheel powere... |
| 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." |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Aerial Blight Control, Inc., with a man using a hoe while a crop duster sprays the field. Farm buildings and clouds are seen in the distance.... |
| 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: | 09 26 1969 |
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| Description: | Walter Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources weighs the 4,499-page transcript of Wisconsin's DDT hearings. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two young children working barefoot in a field. J.C. Allen. |
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| Description: | View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates a... |
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| Description: | View from front of a man on a motorcycle squirting fuel oil into a sewer opening at a curb to control mosquitoes. The motorcycle has an oil tank attached l... |
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| Description: | Flies and mosquitoes, and fruits and vegetables with faces drawn on them, are looking with alarm at a man pushing what appears to be a grocery basket with ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1958 |
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| Description: | All elm trees in Maple Bluff are sprayed for Dutch elm disease in accordance with the village's compulsory spraying ordinance. Charles Webster, 2740 Milwau... |
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| Description: | Truck parked among buildings, with people standing nearby. Caption reads: "Malaria eradication personnel talking to farmer in the coastal regions north of ... |
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