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| Description: | William Burchart and Herman Novak unload potatoes from a truck at Frito-Lay Potato Corporation. The potatoes are being dumped from the back of the truck in... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A still life of fresh garden vegetables including squash, eggplant, melons, potatoes, cabbage, peppers and corn. |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | "Ben & Catherine Adelmeyer tend their potato crop in a field that abutted Henni & Wisconsin Streets." |
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| Description: | A seated woman peeling potatoes. Two buckets are on the floor in front of her and she is wearing a striped apron. |
| Date: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1895 |
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| Description: | A pile of potatoes, weighing one hundred and seventy-four pounds, sits next to an overturned bushel basket on the potato field of Henry Kuepper. Stumps and... |
| Date: | 08 01 1895 |
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| Description: | A field of potato plants, with a forest in the background. A man is leaning against a basswood or linden tree that stands approximately eighty-five feet ta... |
| Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 09 04 1895 |
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| Description: | A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin. The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A bearded man stands in a vegetable garden holding a hat full of potatoes. There is a carriage with a team of horses on the road beside the garden. |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train. |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The farm's hired hand John (played by Owen Moore) carefully approaches Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) who has fallen asleep while peeling a potato in a... |
| Date: | 08 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ... |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of an outdoor portrait of a man and boy posing sitting around a tub of potatoes on a lawn near a building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Alden G. Bagley driving a Farmall M pulling a wagon loaded with barrels of seed potatoes. Behind him is his 6,000 barrel storage house. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from right rear of Frank Russel driving a Farmall H tractor with a middlebuster to harvest potatoes. |
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