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| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using a 7-foot McCormick mower on hill on the farm of William Knoderer, overlooking what appears to be a body of water and farm buildings. |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A team of cranberry harvesters work in a line across a flooded cranberry marsh. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of field hands working to harvest cranberries in a flooded cranberry marsh, while men inspect newly harvested and crated cranberries. I... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Two men, in waders, posing with cranberry harvesting equipment and freshly harvested berries. The berries have been loaded onto small barges. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A man stands waist-deep in water to harvest cranberries with a rake during the harvest. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A man wearing waders walks knee-deep through water and floating cranberries as he pulls a boom used for confining the cranberries so they can be harvested. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A man holding a rake wades knee-deep through floating cranberries during the harvest. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s... |
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| Description: | Cranberry growing has been and is one of the most profitable and picturesque branches of agriculture in Wisconsin. In the 1860's and 1870's, land previousl... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover of Adriance, Platt & Co. features an illustration of a farmer standing in a field holding a scythe and wiping his brow. In the background men... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a man using a horse-drawn reaper in a field. Behind him on the left is a man using a rake to bind the grain. In the background is... |
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