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Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
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Man in Reeds

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Description: At Big Muskegan Wind. In a marsh part of a lake, a man in waders is bent over among the reeds. In the background are three people in a boat, with one perso...
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Laying Wire for Radio Station with a T-20 Crawler

Date: 1937
Description: Three men laying wire in a forested area for W.H.A.S Radio. One of the men is operating an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor).
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Syl and Man Playing Baseball

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Description: Syl and an unidentified man play baseball on the lawn. Syl is on the left wearing a catchers mask and glove, while the man is holding a bat preparing to hi...
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Stocking Fish

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Description: Conservation advocate Sigurd F. Olson stocking smallmouth bass in the canoe country near the Minnesota-Canadian border.
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Testing the Experimental International HT-340 Tractor

Date: 1961
Description: An experimental International HT 340 tractor is being tested by a man wearing a helmet in an outdoor environment. Other men are standing in the background.
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Woman Holding Trout and Fly-Fishing Rod

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Description: A woman wearing waders and a hat holds up a trout in her right hand and a fly-fishing rod in her left hand. Attached to her hat are fly-fishing flies, and ...
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Horse Racing at Arlington Park

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Description: Jockeys on horseback pass a striped marker on the dirt race track at Arlington Park. In the background the grandstand holds numerous spectators. Arlington ...
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Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 11 1940
Description: Thirteen year-old James Borden (standing in the middle) of Madison, Wisconsin, the 1940 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, waiting for his turn to...
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Race Car Built by Ideal Body Company

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Description: Race car number 6 sponsored by National Auto Elec. The body of the car was built by the Ideal Body Company. A man wearing a helmet and goggles is sitting i...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Woman Raking Cranberries

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.
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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
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...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Freshly harvested cranberries float on the top of a flooded cranberry marsh. The berries are gathered and fed onto a conveyor belt that dumps the berries i...
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Cranberry Gathering

Date: 1980
Description: Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh...
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Waiting at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: A small group of refugees wait with luggage under an awning at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. An armed soldier stands behind them on the right. There is a tr...
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The Railroad Section Gang

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Description: Five men known as the Railroad Section Gang pose together on a handcar on railroad tracks. They traveled on handcars and repaired tracks. Standing second f...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 1934
Description: Cranberry harvesters using cranberry rakes make their way across a flooded cranberry bog. In the background crates of harvested cranberries are stacked wai...
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River Crossing to Outpost

Date: 06 1962
Description: U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley and soldiers crossing a river in the delta region of Vietnam in a small boat to visit an outpost. A large building, a m...

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