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Waiting to Load Sacks on Train

Date: 09 1902
Description: Farmers with wagon loads of sacks of potatoes(?), probably waiting to load them on a train.
Photograph

Women Picking Vegetables

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Description: A woman on the left is standing holding an umbrella looking down at a woman who is bending over picking vegetables. In the background on the right is a hou...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Photograph

Food Market

Date: 1929
Description: A groups of Algerians shop in a market in Canrobert. Vegetables can be seen in baskets on stepped wooden benches and on the ground. A stone building with a...
Photograph

Children Posed with Produce

Date: 1910
Description: Two children posed on porch steps with assorted garden produce. Probably from the International Harvester Co. Educational Extension Project.
Photograph

Municipal Market

Date: 1918
Description: Farm produce for sale from farm trucks at the Municipal Market on the Capitol Square. The Municipal market was established by a committee of women in July,...
Historical Object

143 - Campers Working in Farm Field

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs. In one, a number of campers are kneeling, working in a farmer's field. A tractor and line of tr...
Photograph

Man and Boy Posing Sitting Around a Tub of Potatoes

Date: 
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.
Photograph

Picking Tomatoes

Date: 
Description: View down rows of a field towards men, women, and children picking vegetables, probably tomatoes, in a field.
Photograph

Market Scene

Date: 1910
Description: A market stall with an array of fruits, vegetables, fish, and flowers. The shop keeper is sitting in the center just behind a wooden post. In her journal f...
Photograph

Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
Photograph

Field of Tall Vegetation

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Description: Outdoor view of a field with tall vegetation.
Photograph

Children with Farm Produce

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Description: Laurie and Muriel Peterson are standing behind a display of farm produce from their mother's garden. On the ground in front of them are pumpkins, squash, a...
Photograph

Robert C. Taylor on Farmall C Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Robert C. Taylor working as a farm operator for his father. Robert is operating a Farmall C tractor with No. C-452 c...
Photograph

Sid in his Backyard Garden

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Description: View across Sid's backyard, with Sid standing and wearing a Japanese kimono near one of his Japanese lanterns and a gate. In the background behind a fence ...
Photograph

Christine Peterson Cleaning Vegetables

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Description: Mrs. (Christine) Peterson by the back door. She is sitting on the top step and a cat is standing at her feet. A small pile of vegetables are next to her on...
Photograph

Food Market in Street

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Description: View from sidewalk of a food market across the street set up along a sidewalk. A woman and a child are walking across the street in the crosswalk. The Poin...
Postcard

Shipping Cabbage

Date: 1909
Description: View across field towards men loading carts of cabbage onto boxcars. Caption reads: "Shipping Cabbage, Greenville, Wis."
Photograph

Westside Farmers' Market

Date: 09 27 2014
Description: A woman is standing behind a table with a display of vegetables. She is wearing a red shirt with the word "Wisconsin" printed on it. The vegetables are arr...
Photograph

Adda Howie with Beans

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Description: Adda Howie at Sunny Peak Farm holding a handful of green and purple beans. There are two rocking chairs and a potted plant on the porch in the background.

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