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Cherry Picking in Door County
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A man pours a large pot of freshly picked cherries into an evaporated milk carton. The carton rests on a sign reading, "Cherries, Pick Your Own." Cherry trees are visible behind him.
1967
Mueller, Andrew John
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WHi 83737
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Cherry Picking
Men and boys stand between rows of trees, picking cherries. Some of them are holding buckets and standing on ladders.
Cherry Harvest
1963
Cherry picking on the Door Peninsula. A man is pouring cherries into boxes from a bucket.
Cherry Picking
Girls pick cherries in an orchard. Some hold buckets and sit on ladders.
Cherry Picking
1921
Catherine "Kack" Davis, with a bucket clipped to her belt, holds up a cluster of cherries in a cherry orchard at Simon Cherry Orchard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Her sister, Sally Simon, is visible...
Cherry Picking Scene
July 4, 1927
Text on front reads: "Cherry Picking Scene, Door County, Wisconsin." A cherry orchard filled with people and people on ladders, harvesting the fruit into boxes and baskets.
Cherry Picking Scene, Door County
1920
Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries.
