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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Thousands of potatoes dumped from a freight train along a rail embankment. There is a cow in the background foraging. Original caption reads, "Many thousan... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is siftting flour into a bowl in a kitchen. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. The table in front of h... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a potato ricer in a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Children working in garden. One child is pulling beets, while another child is digging up potatoes with a hoe. Another child is sitting in a wheelbarrow lo... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Farm produce is stored in the corner of a cellar with dirt floors and brick walls. Gourds, potatoes, and pumpkins are kept in barrels, baskets, and on a ta... |
| Date: | 03 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads burlap bags of potatoes from a railroad car onto the back of an International Model S truck owned by Howard Reilley. |
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| Description: | Potatoes going from truck to sorting machine at the Mumbrue farm. Roy Roth and George Mumbrue stand next to the machine in front of a barn. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Chas. (Charles) Beard, a grower of fancy rural New York seed potatoes from Elcho, Wisconsin, with a duotone image of a potato, and "One of My... |
| 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. |
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