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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Farmall B Tractor Hauling Produce

Date: 1946
Description: Man pulling a trailer with a Farmall B tractor on the farm of C.H. Meyerling. The trailer is loaded with tomatoes. A young man is standing next to another ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onions

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn....
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Sugar Beets

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Green Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th...
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American Fruit Growers Wash House

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Men stand on a platform to load an International Model C-30 truck with celery at the American Fruit Growers Wash House.
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International Truck in Field

Date: 1935
Description: Male and female workers box celery beside an International Model C-30 truck parked in a field. The truck was owned by Joe Fields Service Company and hauled...
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Cabbage Garden

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Description: A view of two men standing and working in a garden in the Canadian Yukon Territory. Caption reads: "A Klondyke Garden, Dawson, Y.T."
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Harvesting Onions

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Description: A view of men and women in a field during the harvest of onions. Caption reads: "April Bermuda Onion Harvest, Mission, Texas."
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Man with Farm Produce

Date: 1921
Description: A bearded man wearing a cap holds a gourd while standing next to a horse-drawn wagon under a pergola. The wagon is laden with gourds, kale, burlap bags ful...
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Man with Farm Produce

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Description: A man, probably a farm vendor, standing next to a horse-drawn wagon loaded with farm produce at what appears to be an outdoor marketplace. The man is wear...
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Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 30 1925
Description: Men loading bushels of fruit and vegetables onto the back of a Model 63 International truck owned by the McCray & Hunter company. A loading dock of a brick...
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Farm Produce Delivery Truck

Date: 03 22 1925
Description: A man unloads a bushel basket of fruits and vegetables from the back of a Model S International truck owned by Louis Tauco. The man is making deliveries in...
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Pontiac Potatoes

Date: 09 1984
Description: "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ...
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Opening Day of Dane County Farmers' Market

Date: 04 1998
Description: A farmer weighing ginseng on opening day of the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. Pedestrians are strolling on the sidewalk on the right. ...

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