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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Men Using Tractor and Threshing Machine

Date: 1897
Description: Large group portrait of men and young boys operating a steam tractor that is being used for belt-driven threshing machinery in a field. In the foreground a...
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Farmers and Threshing Machine

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Description: A group of eight farmers resting on or near a wooden threshing machine.
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Harvesting Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...
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Ho-Chunk Woman in Field with Tents

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Description: A Ho-Chunk woman walking in a field. In the background are several white tents, possibly an encampment for a cranberry harvest.
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Two men are posing on the right with the tractor. On the left a group of men are...
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Men and Binders in a Field

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Description: View across field towards a group of men standing near two or three horse-drawn binders. Two men are sitting on the binders, and a team of horses is on the...
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Threshing Scene

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Description: A group of men are standing and working around a thresher.
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Horses Pulling a Reaper

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Description: View across yard towards a man standing on the back of a reaper pulled by a team of two horses on a road.
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Picking Tomatoes

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

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Description: View across field towards four men standing in a field and holding tools in a recently reaped field.
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Group Harvesting

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Description: Outdoor view of men and women sitting and standing in a field harvesting a crop.
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Copy Photograph of Threshing Crew

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Description: A copy photograph of a threshing crew standing with wagon and threshing machine among cone-shaped haystacks.
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Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians Picking Cranberries

Date: 1913
Description: Panoramic slightly elevated view of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indians harvesting cranberries by hand at Gebhart's Marsh.

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