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Man Drinking Outdoors in Field

Date: 1949
Description: A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o...
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DDT Application

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Description: Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water.
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P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
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Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
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Power Unit Operating Water Well

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: A.C. White, contractor, stands near a rotary water well rig powered by an International P-12 power unit mounted on a truck.
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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
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River Drivers

Date: 1895
Description: Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Dorothy Schoenbrun

Date: 1967
Description: Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo...
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Spraying Cranberry Marshes

Date: 1945
Description: Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou...
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Cranberry Gathering

Date: 1980
Description: Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh.
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Raking Cranberries

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1980
Description: Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh...
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Widening Irrigation Canal

Date: 1962
Description: Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ...
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International Dump Truck and Shovel at Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: Men use shovel to load boulder pieces, removed from the walls of Black Canyon with dynamite, into the back of an International truck during the constructio...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Harvesting Team in a Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1934
Description: A team of cranberry harvesters work in a line across a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Cranberry Harvest and Inspection

Date: 1934
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...

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