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Woman Raking Cranberries

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.
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Dry Cranberry Picking

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Description: Cranberry pickers in a Wisconsin marsh. The pickers include women and children.
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Albert Peglow in Apiary

Date: 1923
Description: Wisconsin beekeeper Albert Peglow posed standing outdoors among beehives in apiary.
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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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Near Wyoming Valley

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin farm scene, south of Lone Rock, but in Iowa County. A church can be seen on the left. The hills are the south bluffs of the Wisconsin River.
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University of Wisconsin Buildings

Date: 09 07 1900
Description: View across fields towards University of Wisconsin Madison buildings. On the left is standing the home of the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Stephen M...
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Open Farmland

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Description: Fields, cattle in a pasture, and farm buildings in the countryside, possibly near Avon, Wisconsin.
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Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial

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Description: Roger Little Eagle (Tallmadge) standing in a field holding a horse by the bridle.
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Harvesting Tomatoes in Rio Grande Valley

Date: 1970
Description: Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley.

Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ...

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The Scarecrow

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Description: A scarecrow watching over her crops with a farmhouse in the background. This is a part Old World Wisconsin.
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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
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Bridge Over a River

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Description: Elevated view from shoreline of a river with an iron bridge over it. Buildings are on the far shoreline near fields, and tree-covered hills are in the dist...
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Landscape with Rock Formation

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Description: View across flat field towards a tall, narrow exposed rock formation on the left with a few trees growing on it, and on the far right another rock formatio...
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Two Men in Field

Date: 1895
Description: Two men in a field with long dikes.
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Farmer Holding Box of Produce

Date: 1895
Description: Farmer in a vegetable field holding a box of produce, showing the productivity and diversity of his farm in northern Wisconsin. A man on the left walks wit...
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Camp Petenwell CCC Dam

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Description: The Civilian Conservation Corps dam built at Camp Petenwell near Necedah.
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Houses on Church Street

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: "These houses on Church Street were photographed from the intersection of Henni & Wisconsin Streets. Note the outhouses!"
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Asa C. Bennett and Sons Cranberry farm

Date: 1905
Description: Cranberry marshes and irrigation ditch. The family home, barn and outbuildings are in the background.
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Men Working in Cranberry Bog

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Description: Men working in Wisconsin cranberry bog. Possibly combing the vines. In the background are long, open air sheds packed with crates.
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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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