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Tobacco Planting

Date: 1960
Description: A young man in the foreground examines tobacco leaves. Two boys sit on a tractor attachment in the background.
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Tobacco Weeding

Date: 06 1968
Description: Farmer weeding in a tobacco field.
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Cabbage, Tobacco Plants, and Sweet Corn

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: A plot of land in front of a row of houses features cabbage in the foreground, ripe, four-foot tall Havana seed leaf tobacco plants in the center, and swee...
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Saloon Interior

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a saloon. A bartender stands behind the bar, and another man wearing a hat stands in front of the bar. The back of the carved wood bar is mirro...
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William Krueger

Date: 1899
Description: Portrait of William Krueger holding a book in his lap and holding a pair of eyeglasses. Behind him, a long pipe is resting against a table on which a box i...
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Tobacco Warehouse Which Pay Annually $12,000 for Labor

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Description: View across unpaved road of the front of a brick two-story tobacco warehouse. Three men are posed standing on the stoop in front of the door. A barefoot gi...
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Viola Court House

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Description: Exterior view of the "Viola Court House" — a small wooden building where one can find the Justice of the Peace. Posters on the exterior walls promote an up...
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Smoking Pipes

Date: 12 26 1906
Description: Alexander Krueger, August Krueger, and Henry Bigalk sitting on the front porch smoking pipes. August is sitting on a chair holding the bag of tobacco, whil...
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Smoking Pipes on the Porch

Date: 12 1906
Description: Alexander Krueger and Henry Bigalk sitting on the floor of the front porch smoking pipes. The bag of tobacco is sitting on the ground in front of them.
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Playing Cards

Date: 12 1906
Description: Sarah Krueger and Henry Bigalk playing cards at a table set up outdoors next to the porch. Henry is smoking a pipe and has a large bottle of alcohol sticki...
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Henry Bigalk Playing Cards with Himself

Date: 12 1906
Description: Double exposure image of Henry Bigalk playing cards with himself at a table placed outside next to the porch. Alcohol bottles, cards, a mug, and a bag of t...
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Group with Tobacco Harvest

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of four men and one woman posing standing in a tobacco field next to a tobacco wagon pulled by a two horses.
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Tobacco Field

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Description: A tobacco field next to a wooden building.
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We Are Power Farmers

Date: 1924
Description: A middle-aged man stands holding an agricultural implement in a field of tobacco plants. A sign next to him reads: "We Are Power Farmers Using Fordson Trac...
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Device Controls Television at Hospital

Date: 10 23 1964
Description: View of Joe E. Miller with his head on a pillow trying out a new hand held "communication system unit, which allows him to change the channel on the telev...
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East Main Street Looking S.E.

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Description: View across East Main Street towards a row of businesses, looking southeast. From the left, the corner building has a tobacco shop with a law office above,...
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Tobacco Farm Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Group of farm workers are standing and posing in a field while threading tobacco leaves on lathes for drying. Two children and a dog are standing in the ce...
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Man Using Farmall Cub and 144 Cultivator in Tobacco Field

Date: 07 20 1948
Description: View from front of a man using a Farmall Cub and 144 cultivator in a tobacco field of Tollie E. Simonson of Readstown, Rte. 1, Wisconsin.
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Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this y...
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Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this ...

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