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| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Mary Kessenich Schmitz, sitting with her children Martha and David, looking at garden seed catalogs. |
| Date: | 09 17 1961 |
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| Description: | View of the Gresham Cooperative Feed Mill. A residential house is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A large pile of used tires near a DX gasoline sign. In the background are several grain elevators, a house, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sign. |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | View of the porch of a vacant at 535 10th Avenue with grain elevators in the background. This particular group of grain elevators were called "Tanktown." |
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| Description: | View across road of two cars parked near the Orfordville Crop Service. The front wall is adorned with signs for Northrup King Seeds and Borden Smith Dougla... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Colored image of Rambler Roses growing on a trellis at the corner of a porch. |
| Date: | 11 29 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers driving horse-drawn wagons carrying cotton seed along a rural dirt road. Farm buildings are on a hill in the background. |
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| Description: | A farmer pours seeds from a canvas bag into the trough of a seed planting machine. A farmhouse, white picket fence, and picnic table with chairs are visibl... |
| Date: | 01 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features the shape of the state of Wisconsin outlined in blue and filled in with yell... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | An illustration in the John A. Salzer's Seed Company catalog advertising varieties of berry seeds. The illustration features raspberries, blackberries, and... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | The cover design of Olds' Catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The subtitle reads: "Tells the Truth." The illustration features a melon cut in half, and veg... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The back cover design of the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features strawberries, tomatotos, and figs, and a woman and girl in a ga... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A back cover design for the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features a variety of flowers in the foreground, and in the background, a... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A roomful of workers are cleaning seeds using "The Clipper Cleaners" manufactured by A.T. Ferrell & Co., Saginaw, Michigan. The machines are arranged in fo... |
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