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Man in front of Fence

Date: 1873
Description: A bearded man is standing in the foreground in front of a fence, and a person is sitting on the fence on the right. Two people are standing on the hill beh...
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. Kapec with Strawberries

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Local fruit farmers Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kapec, Route 2, Madison, display a crate of home grown strawberries the size of golf balls.
Photograph

Cherry Picking

Date: 1921
Description: A woman with a bucket clipped to her belt holds up a cluster of cherries in a cherry orchard.
Photograph

Tractor Training for Jewish Women

Date: 1942
Description: Ruth Sager stoops to speak to Wood Hendrickson, manager of C.O. Smith, an International Harvester dealership. Two women stand behind Sager and Hendrickson,...
Photograph

Woman Standing in Orchard

Date: 
Description: Autochrome portrait of a woman standing in an orchard beneath a blossoming cherry tree.
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Aunt Helen Posing in Orchard

Date: 08 27 1899
Description: Aunt Helen posing against a tree wearing a dress in an orchard.
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Print

Acme Insecticides Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Acme White Lead & Color Works of Detroit, Michigan, which as part of its business produced insecticides for farm and home garden applicat...
Photograph

Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
Photograph

Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: A man and three women pick cherries. Each has a small bucket tied around their waist.
Photograph

Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, center, and two of his daughters, on the right, pick cherries with others in the family's orchard. They have small pail...
Photograph

Cherry Blossoms

Date: 05 1919
Description: The author's wife Clothilde admires a cherry tree in full bloom at Gibraltar Orchard.
Photograph

Cherries in Bloom

Date: 05 25 1919
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde admires the view of the Gibraltar Orchard in full bloom. The is a pile of lumber on the left; stones are piled under tree...
Photograph

Orchard Toast

Date: 1910
Description: Posed line of alternating men and women in an orchard standing drinking cider of beer drawn from a keg in the center. Three young children are sitting on t...
Photograph

Couple in Horse-Drawn Buggy

Date: 
Description: A man and woman pose in a two seated, horse-drawn buggy, pulled by one horse. Behind them are trees in an orchard.
Photograph

Old Orchard During Winter

Date: 1905
Description: Jennie, Edgar, Mary, and Alexander Krueger standing in an old orchard on their property during winter. Between Edgar and Jennie is a sled, and a dog is sta...
Postcard

Cherry Picking in Door County

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view of workers picking cherries, some of them standing on ladders.
Postcard

Cherry Picking Scene, Door County

Date: 1920
Description: Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries.

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