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Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
Poster

Promotional Circular of Young Woman Picking Cherries

Date: 1925
Description: Promotional circular announcing the 1926 calendar for McCormick-Deering farm machinery. The calendar features a young woman looking coyly over her shoulder...
Photograph

International Wholesale Fruit Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i...
Photograph

Family on Entryway Steps

Date: 1874
Description: Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova...
Photograph

L.E. Johnson and B.F. Halin

Date: 1876
Description: Family, including a woman, young man and man sitting around table in a yard, with a two-story stone house with a porch on at least two sides. A young girl ...
Photograph

New Orleans Market

Date: 
Description: View of the old French fruit and vegetable market. Pineapples and bananas are hanging in the stalls.
Photograph

Immigrants with Christmas Tree

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Description: A group of immigrants pose in front of a tall Christmas tree at Ellis Island.
Photograph

Banana Trucks in front of Commercial Building

Date: 06 02 1926
Description: Two men stand next to International trucks marked "Bananas" and decorated with American flags parked outside a commercial building.
Photograph

Gauer & Friends in Costume

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Description: Harold Gauer (wearing a hat, wig, bow tie and smoking a cigar), and three friends, Ed Sachs (who took over the editorship of the Sauk City newspaper), D. R...
Photograph

Unloading Grapefruit

Date: 04 11 1935
Description: Elevated view of a man opening a door on the side of an International Model C-40 truck to empty grapefruit into an adjacent bin. The truck was owned by Cal...
Photograph

Weinstein Brothers Truck

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: A man unloads bags from the bed of an International Model C-30 truck with a special express body used by Weinstein Bros. fruit and produce dealers. The tru...
Photograph

Lakeland Truck with Metro Body

Date: 1950
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an International LM-150 truck owned by the Lakeland Fruit & Produce Company. The truck is parked with its rear toward an ope...
Photograph

Delivery Truck Outside Grocery Store

Date: 1913
Description: International Model M delivery truck operated by William Brandfellner groceries parked outside the storefront. Produce is visible through the storefront, a...
Photograph

Union Railroad Station

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of people walking through the main lobby of the Union Railroad Station, built in 1914. A fruit and candy shop with a soda fountain i...
Photograph

Observation Tower

Date: 
Description: View across road of an observation tower overlooking extensive apple orchards, a tourist attraction in season. Many people are standing below the tower whe...
Photograph

Grape Stomp

Date: 09 15 1984
Description: Patricia Mallach of Waukesha demonstrating grape stomping to a crowd of onlookers during the Wine and Harvest Festival. She has a balloon tied around her n...
Print

Valentine Greetings

Date: 1940
Description: Valentine's Day "secret pal" card with a peach on the front, and a cake and plum on the inside (all shown). The peach has long eyelashes, red lipstick and ...
Photograph

Vendors at City Market

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of men standing around vendor trucks parked at the city fruit market in front of commercial buildings. A building in the background has a sig...
Postcard

Pieper's Fruit Farm

Date: 
Description: Color postcard of an aerial view of Pieper's Fruit Farm. The apple orchards are behind the farmhouse and outbuildings.

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