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Lexington Market

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

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als...
Photograph

Sentry's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Department

Date: 02 14 1985
Description: A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store.
Photograph

Judging at Apple Show

Date: 1910
Description: Two men pose while several others judge apples from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, at the national apple show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A...
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

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...
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

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

Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker...
Photograph

Pie Plants in Garden

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: A garden lush with tall pie plants (rhubarb) belonging to Mrs. H.H. Wooledge. One stalk is leaning against a wooden chair, and the leaf of the plant reachi...
Photograph

Tree Planting Crew

Date: 05 1911
Description: A pickup truck carrying a crew of 12 men is parked between two automobiles in front of a barn. The truck is identified as "Bingham & Lawrence Fruit and Nur...
Photograph

Strawberry Field

Date: 1895
Description: Two men stand in a strawberry field bordered by burnt-over forest. The photographer's shadow can be seen at the bottom of the image.
Photograph

Campers at a Table

Date: 1921
Description: Two men are sitting on benches at a table in front of a fishing camp log cabin in northern Wisconsin. Both men are wearing hats, and the man on the right h...
Postcard

Horticulture Exhibit at the Courthouse

Date: 10 07 1911
Description: Interior group portrait of horticulture exhibitors and many plates of apples. The ceiling lamps are decorated with flags.
Photograph

Weekly Market in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval soldiers buying fruit. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
Photograph

Man on Ladder Picking Apples

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Description: A man standing high on a ladder is picking apples from trees, and handing them down to a woman standing on the ground. There is a barrel full of applies at...
Photograph

Under the Apple Tree

Date: 05 19 1905
Description: Mae (Margaret) von der Sump is holding a branch of blossoms as she poses with her mother, Bertha, and father Frank under an apple tree in full bloom. There...

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