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Loading Crates of Fruit on Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two men load boxes of packed fruit into the back of a truck at the loading dock of the Vaughn-Griffin Packing Plant. The boxes have advertisements on them ...
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

Unpacking Apples

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of people eat and help unload crates of apples from a U-Haul trailer in the campground area of the Sound Storm music festival during the constructi...
Photograph

Apple Tree

Date: 10 18 1964
Description: Close-up of an apple on an apple tree in the yard of Mrs. Kay Curtis.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor in Orchard

Date: 1945
Description: A man, possibly Corporal James H. Mills, operating a Farmall H tractor in what appears to be an apple orchard. Corporal Mills was presented with a tractor ...
Book or Pamphlet

John A. Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of the 1919 John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring depictions of carrots, cabbage and a honeydew melon. The back cover also bears the slogan ...
Photograph

Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View of three Trappist monks from Our Lady of the Valley abbey harvesting apples. Two men are standing on ladders and picking the fruit, while the third ma...
Postcard

With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus, surrounded by pine boughs and candles, spilling toys and treats out of his sack. He is wearing a brown coat, mittens and...
Photograph

Shorewood Hills Young People Planning a Dance

Date: 07 02 1953
Description: Eight young people from Shorewood Hills take a break from planning their dance, called "Watermelon Weather." From left are: Ray White, Janet Chlanda, Nancy...
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

Jean Ward and Peach Tree

Date: 09 09 1953
Description: Jean Ward of 2961 Milwaukee Street is standing beneath a peach-laden tree that grew in his garden from pits discarded 8 years ago.
Photograph

Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Photograph

Little Girls Having a Tea Party

Date: 1900
Description: Margery Bish (left) and another little girl, unidentified, sit at a low outdoor table set with a tea service. There is a china doll propped under the table...
Book or Pamphlet

O-12 Orchard Tractor Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering O-12 orchard tractor. Features a photo of a man using an O-12 tractor to spray trees in an orcha...
Photograph

Young Woman and F-1800 Truck

Date: 1976
Description: Young woman standing among what appears to be branches of a cherry tree. An man is driving an International truck, possibly a Fleetstar F-1800, in the back...
Photograph

International Truck on Highway

Date: 1972
Description: Color photograph of International truck owned by the GI Trucking Company on a highway, passing by what appears to be an orange grove.
Photograph

Sarajevo Street

Date: 11 1940
Description: A street scene in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
Photograph

Roadside Fruit Stand

Date: 09 1924
Description: Two men are standing on opposite sides of a table full of small crates of fruit, possibly apples (?). The original caption reads: "Roadside market scene."
Photograph

Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
Photograph

Farm Orchard Sprayer, Baskets and Apples

Date: 08 1923
Description: Apples in baskets in front of a "farm orcharding sprayer" at R.R. Robertson's. Farm buildings are in the background. On the left is a grinding wheel powere...

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