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Sugar Camp
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A Native American man, left, posing in front of the sapling frame of a shelter at a maple sugar camp. Two Native American women are standing under the framework, and a man of European descent is at standing on the far right. Several wooden barrels and small buckets are on the ground.
1930
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Maple Grove
1930
An unidentified man wearing a hat and double breasted overcoat is holding a binocular case in his left hand and posing beside maple trees that have multiple spiles, or taps, in their trunks. There ...
Collecting Maple Sap at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm
circa 1960-1969
Two men in a forest are pouring maple sap into metal barrels and buckets at the Maple Crest Maple Syrup Farm. One man is standing in the back of the trailer hitched to a John Deere tractor, while t...
Maple Sugaring
September 13, 1949
A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to make maple sugar and syrup.
Preparing Corn for Drying
1930
A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on a patchwork quilt in the foreground.
Production of Maple Syrup
circa 1927
Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin.
Man Tapping Sugar Maple Tree
A man drilling a hole in a sugar maple tree, for extracting the sap, using a hand drill. A bucket is hanging on the opposite side of the tree under a tap. The sap will eventually be made into maple...
