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Vegetable Vendor with Basket Balanced on Head

Date: 1900
Description: African American vegetable vendor with a large basket of vegetables balanced on her head and another in the crook of her arm. Text on photograph reads "Veg...
Photograph

Walkenhorst School Canning Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg...
Photograph

Agricultural Display in Classroom

Date: 10 27 1917
Description: View of an agricultural display at the Walkenhorst School Fair, consisting of vegetables, fruits, and canned goods lined up on a table. Various graphs, il...
Photograph

School Garden Dinner

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children sitting around tables at the Second Grade Normal School. The room is decorated with flowers and American flags.
Photograph

Pakistani Boats

Date: 1951
Description: Overhead view of Doonga houseboats on the Jhelum River in Pakistan.
Poster

French-Language Potato Digger Poster

Date: 1930
Description: French-language poster advertising the Deering potato harvester. The poster includes a color illustration of the harvester along with text listing the feat...
Photograph

Testing Seed Corn

Date: 1915
Description: Helen Thomas leans over papers on a desk in a classroom, reading the test of her father's seed corn. Another girl stands on the left, writing on a chalkboa...
Photograph

Produce Farming Lecture

Date: 1915
Description: Men stand around or sit on the steps of a stone building to listen as A.E. Chamberlain delivers a lesson on the benefits of vegetable production. Chamberla...
Photograph

Hmong Vegetable Sellers

Date: 1997
Description: Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market.
Photograph

Woman Eating Canned Food

Date: 05 1926
Description: A woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace is sitting at a table to eat canned corn and peaches.
Photograph

Young Boy Harvesting Beans

Date: 1920
Description: A boy is holding a bushel basket while harvesting string beans in a field. A farmhouse and what appears to be a rabbit hutch or chicken coop are behind him...
Photograph

Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Group of children in a large school garden working on their crops.
Photograph

Children in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Several children standing in a school garden.
Photograph

Potatoes at Chicago Dump

Date: 1917
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...
Photograph

Students Harvesting Carrots from School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Group of students working in Woodlawn School Garden. Mr. O.M. Plummer receiving carrots from a student.
Photograph

Drying Rack

Date: 1917
Description: A four-tiered drying rack used to dry fruits and vegetables hangs from the ceiling above a heater in what appears to be a basement or root cellar.
Photograph

Woman in Alley

Date: 1915
Description: View from cobblestone street of a woman wearing a skirt and head scarf moving a barrel of discarded vegetables in an alley. Probably taken near an outdoor ...
Book or Pamphlet

Sources of the Gross Income of Wisconsin Farms

Date: 1929
Description: Pie chart showing the sources of gross income for Wisconsin farms in 1927.
Photograph

Man with Farm Produce

Date: 1921
Description: A bearded man wearing a cap holds a gourd while standing next to a horse-drawn wagon under a pergola. The wagon is laden with gourds, kale, burlap bags ful...
Photograph

Madison East Shopping Center

Date: 09 24 1953
Description: Produce section of the Kroger Store at the new Madison East Shopping Center on East Washington Avenue.

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