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Uncle Herman's Farm

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ...
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Men Pointing Pistols at Man Riding Sawhorse

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Description: Two men are posing in front of a backdrop pointing pistols at a man who is riding a sawhorse as if it were a real horse and holding up his hand in surrende...
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Dankoler and Two Men in Wooded Area

Date: 11 06 1909
Description: Joe Leighton, E.A. Corneille, and Harry E. Dankoler standing in a wooded area with a small dog. Dankoler is holding the holding the shutter release mechani...
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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...
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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...
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Saloon Interior

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a saloon. A bartender stands behind the bar, and another man wearing a hat stands in front of the bar. The back of the carved wood bar is mirro...
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Tree Planting Crew

Date: 05 1911
Description: A pickup truck carrying a crew of 12 men is parked between two automobiles in front of a barn. The truck is identified as "Bingham & Lawrence Fruit and Nur...
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Planting Trees at Gibraltar Orchards

Date: 05 1911
Description: Stone walls line a tilled field where workers carry shovels and bundles of small trees to plant an orchard.
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
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.
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Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
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Mann's Restaurant

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Description: James R. Mann, and Eleanor Mann, proprietors of Mann's restaurant, standing in front of their storefront, with the clerk, Joe Haberlie, and an unknown woma...
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Throwing on a Potter's Wheel

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist working on a potter's wheel. He is shaping the rim of a vase as while it is spinning on t...
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Potter at Work

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist throwing a vase on a pottery wheel. Pottery is sitting on shelving on the left.
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The Net Mender

Date: 07 1951
Description: A man repairing fishing nets wound on large reels at a fishery.
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Preparations

Date: 07 1951
Description: A man preparing nets wound on large reels for fishing. A row of tubs are in the foreground and a shed is in the background.
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Rio Family Harvesting Cherries

Date: 1963
Description: Migrant workers from Mexico, Joe Rio, his wife, and six of their eleven children, pose for a photo during a cherry harvest.

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