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Wisconsin Buttermaker's Association, 13th Annual Meeting

Date: 02 03 1914
Description: Panoramic group portrait of the 13th annual meeting of the Wisconsin Buttermakers' Association, Feb. 3-5, 1914. Taken outside of the Wisconsin State Capito...
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Boy with Watermelons at Farmers' Market

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Description: Boy posing with watermelons under a wooden stand at the Farmers' Market. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background.
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Richard Nixon and the Honey Queen

Date: 1958
Description: Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport.
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Farm and Home Week Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Eggs from all over the state are displayed at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Mrs. Leonard Husted (at l...
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Production of Maple Syrup

Date: 1927
Description: Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin.
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Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: Pat Parent and Vicki Vauk, members of Scout Mariner Ship No. 4, present a preview of the Girl Scout cookies to Annetta Evenson, a University of Wisconsin c...
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Bar in Northern Wisconsin

Date: 1903
Description: Interior of a bar in Northern Wisconsin. Two bar patrons are pictured standing in front of the bar, with a bartender posing behind them. The back of the ca...
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Northwestern Depot at Necedah

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Description: View from side of railroad tracks of a train at the depot. A few men stand on the platform, and a man is pulling a luggage cart.
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Strikers in Cucumber Field

Date: 1967
Description: A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca...
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Boy Strikes Against Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc.

Date: 1967
Description: A nine-year old Jamaican boy wearing a backwards cap, plaid jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He is holding two buckets and is looking at the camera. He is join...
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Young Men Packaging Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Two young men package cranberries into Ocean Spray bags at the Walker Cranberry Company. The bags can be seen moving on conveyor belts.
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Cold Cream

Date: 01 1977
Description: Close-up of a child in a knitted balaclava and mittens licking an ice cream cone.
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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
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Ephraim Watts Home

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: Ephraim Watt, his wife Rhoda Adelaide Watt (née Mosher), and their daughter, Glendora Eunice Watt, pose in front of their log home, 14 miles southwest of F...
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Packing Boxes with Bags of Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Two young men are packing boxes with bags of Ocean Spray cranberries. In the background women are bagging the cranberries.
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Farmers' Petitions

Date: 06 1986
Description: Jerry Zarecki (in the hat), president of the Portage County Farmers Union, presents Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with one folder of petitions collec...
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Smoked Fish

Date: 02 28 1965
Description: Two men are packing smoked fish in a box. In the background smoked fish are hanging on nails on racks.
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Alma Shooting Society

Date: 1910
Description: A Swiss "Schutenfest" club, affiliated with the Central Shooting Society of Wisconsin, started about 1877 and lasted until about 1920. Group of men posing ...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker...
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Obreros Unidos at Industrial Commission Hearing

Date: 1966
Description: Obreros Unidos (United Workers) leaders, members and supporters at an Industrial Commission Hearing at Waushara County Courthouse. On the right, standing w...

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