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Photograph

Holiday Canned Food Drive

Date: 11 22 1955
Description: Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T...
Photograph

Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Photograph

Farmer's Market

Date: 1917
Description: Exterior view of the Municipal Market, which was built in 1910 but not operated successfully until July 1917 when it was run by a group of women from the D...
Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
Photograph

Turkey-drawn Wagon

Date: 1910
Description: A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben...
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Fresh Vegetable Vendors

Date: 
Description: Two African American women pose with baskets of fresh vegetables on their heads while selling their produce. A building with an exterior brick chimney is b...
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Shipping Carrots

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market.
Photograph

Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged.
Photograph

Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente...
Photograph

Inspecting Peas

Date: 1975
Description: Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari...
Photograph

Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Giant Lettuce/Cabbage

Date: 
Description: Photomontage of two giant heads of lettuce/cabbage resting on a flatbed railroad car. The side of the car is imprinted with, "L.S. & M.S. 26 D23," showing...
Photograph

Mrs. Harford in Garden

Date: 1930
Description: Cyanotype view of Mrs. Harford sitting in pumpkin and corn in her garden on Madeline Island.
Photograph

Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
Poster

"Mr. Natural Talks 'Bout Lettuce"

Date: 02 24 1971
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi...
Photograph

Vegetables at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Tagged vegetables, including pumpkins, potatoes, corn, and etc., displayed on a shelf and floor in a room.
Photograph

Carrot Packing at Warehouse

Date: 1972
Description: Women workers, probably at a California warehouse, size, weigh, and bag carrots for market.
Print

Victory Garden Seed Order Form

Date: 1943
Description: Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables.
Photograph

Man in Bean Garden

Date: 
Description: A man stands in front of several very tall bean plants. Photograph taken in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company.

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