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Photograph

J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company

Date: 09 21 1922
Description: Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Drawing

Interior of a Cider Mill

Date: 1879
Description: Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left.
Photograph

Crating Melons

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Description: A worker, probably in California, and probably a member of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union local P78, crating melons for shipment.
Photograph

Picking Apples in Oregon

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Description: Apple pickers at work in an orchard. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
Photograph

Picking Newton Pippin Apples

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Description: Agricultural workers pick Newton Pippin apples in an orchard. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Newton Pippin Apples."
Photograph

Picking Apples in Oregon

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Description: Agricultural workers pick apples. Text on photograph reads: "Picking Apples In Oregon."
Photograph

Gathering Elberta Peaches

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Description: Agricultural workers pose in an Elberta peach orchard. They pose with a horse-drawn cart carrying baskets of peaches, and some of the men are holding peach...
Photograph

Picking Pineapples

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Description: Several men picking pineapples in a field. A tree line and two houses are in the distance. Caption reads: "Picking Pines At Fort Pierce, Florida."
Photograph

Picking Pineapples

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Description: Several men pick pineapples in a field. A tree line and two houses are in the distance. Caption reads: "Picking Pines At Fort Pierce, Florida."
Photograph

Packing Cantaloupes

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Description: Men packing cantaloupes for shipment.
Print

G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
Photograph

Chef Carson Gulley's Cooking Show

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Description: Chef Carson Gulley and Beatrice Gulley, Carson's wife, who appeared in this program with Gulley, on Madison television station WMTV. They are being fil...
Print

L’Etoile Restaurant Wine Tasting Dinner with Terrance Leighton Menu

Date: 03 23 1993
Description: One-page autographed menu for a six-course food and wine-tasting event with Terrance Leighton, with the outline of a wine bottle and a bunch of grapes in i...
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant Farmers' Market Dinner Menu

Date: 10 24 1992
Description: Front and back of a menu for a farmers' market dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant, featuring apples and pears and other products from local growers, with a bord...
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.
Photograph

Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...

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