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Tall-tale Postcard: Specimen of California Apples

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of two giant yellow apples resting on a flatbed train car. A group of apple trees stand behind the train. Red text in the upper left corner re...
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Prairie House

Date: 1925
Description: Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w...
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Planting Trees at Gibraltar Orchards

Date: 05 1911
Description: Stone walls line a tilled field where workers carry shovels and bundles of small trees to plant an orchard.
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Young Orchard

Date: 08 1913
Description: Young trees in a cultivated orchard.
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Gibraltar Orchard

Date: 1920
Description: A house and barns stand in the background beyond rows of trees in an orchard on Cottage Row Road.
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Orchard in Bloom

Date: 1922
Description: View from hill of cherry trees in bloom in the Gibraltar Orchard on Sturgeon Bay Road (Highway 42.)
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Cherry Camp

Date: 1922
Description: The Hotz Gibraltar Orchard cherry camp house with a low dormer in front; all windows and the porch are shuttered. There is a car parked in front of a log c...
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Entrance to Cherry Camp

Date: 05 27 1919
Description: Cherry trees in full bloom frame the entrance to the cherry camp buildings, which include a wood frame camp house with shuttered porch and windows on the l...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 1922
Description: Four girls with sun bonnets pose in a cherry orchard with empty trugs.
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Cherries in Bloom

Date: 05 25 1919
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde admires the view of the Gibraltar Orchard in full bloom. The is a pile of lumber on the left; stones are piled under tree...
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Cherry Trees in Bloom

Date: 05 1919
Description: Elevated view across Sturgeon Bay Road, now Highway 42, toward the Gibraltar Orchard cherry camp. There is a wooden fence in the foreground, and the camp c...
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Cherry Camp

Date: 05 27 1919
Description: Looking southeast from behind the camp house, right, and log cabin, left, at the Gibraltar Orchard cherry camp. All the windows on the cottage are boarded ...
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Cherry Trees in Bloom

Date: 05 1919
Description: Cherry trees in bloom at Gibraltar Orchard.
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L. Dawson's Fruit Ranch

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a slightly elevated view of the fruit ranch. Rows of crops in the foreground are bordered by a row of trees. Three dwellings ...
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Springhill Orchards

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Description: Elevated view of an orchard during apple blossom season, with Lake Superior in the distance.
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Cherry Orchards in Door County

Date: 1940
Description: Color enhanced aerial postcard view of cherry orchards in Door County.
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Cherry Picking in Door County

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view of workers picking cherries, some of them standing on ladders.
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Cherry Picking Scene, Door County

Date: 1920
Description: Colorized postcard view of tourists picking cherries.
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Cherry Orchard in Full Bloom, Door County, Wisconsin

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Description: Hand-colored postcard of a cherry orchard with rows of blossoming trees.
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A Driveway In Cherry Land

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Description: Slightly elevated postcard view down a path through a blossoming cherry grove.

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