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Potato Harvest

Date: 1918
Description: Group of seven people seated in a field and eating raw potatoes. The family dog is also present.
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Planting Pine Tree Seedlings

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Description: Four men prepare pine tree seedlings for planting in an open field. One man drives a small tractor, while two men stand behind. Another man sits on a tree ...
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Planting Norway Pine Seedlings

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Description: Floyd Everett drives a tractor as Franklin Kempf plants Norway Pine seedlings using a tree planting trailer hitched to the back of the tractor.
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Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant laborers hoe a cucumber field by hand. There is one worker in the foreground and two others in the background. Rows of seedlings extend across the ...
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Cucumber Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hand tools.

Cultivación de pepinos

Vista desde el suelo de unos trabajadore...
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Cucumber Field Cultivation

Date: 1967
Description: Ground-level view of a double row of workers cultivating a cucumber field with hoes.

Cultivando pepino

Vista desde el suelo de una línea ...
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Teatro Campesino Acto

Date: 1967
Description: Teatro Campesino acto or skit dramatizing the experiences of Hispanic workers in America. Four actors stand together in costume with signs around their nec...
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Cucumber Harvesting Machine

Date: 1968
Description: Two men are riding on a cucumber harvesting machine called the "Pickle Harvester" as labeled on the center between two lights. The man on the right, wearin...
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Log Sawing

Date: 1969
Description: Paul Timm, Arno Timm and Stephen Timm work together sawing a log, which has full 16 foot boards and is 20 feet long.
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Migrant Worker Housing

Date: 1969
Description: A migrant worker family stands in front of a parked vehicle and a cabin that serves as temporary housing in a Wautoma labor camp. Some of the children are ...
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Migrant Workers

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Description: Three men sitting on sacks and taking a break from their work in the field.
Postcard

Bannerman Avenue

Date: 08 20 1910
Description: Text on front: "Bannerman Ave., Redgranite, Wis." View of Bannerman Avenue, an unpaved street in a small town. A horse-drawn buggy is stopped in the street...
Postcard

Silver Lake

Date: 07 17 1919
Description: Text on front reads: "Silver Lake, Wild Rose, Wis." View from shoreline towards three men standing on an earthen pier, two fishing and one watching. Anothe...
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Rose Milling Company

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Wild Rose, Wis." View from bridge, with a railing in the foreground. There are two horse-drawn wagons standing next to a mill on the ...

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