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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

Men Transporting Produce

Date: 05 21 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to haul two wagons loaded with burlap bags of farm produce, possibly oranges. The tractor drives along a di...
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."
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Spring Blossoms

Date: 1925
Description: Alice Hotz Apfelbach, right, and her younger sister Margaret Hotz pose in front of a picket fence along a dirt lane which is now Highway 42. Behind the fe...
Photograph

Man Driving Truck with Hi-Lift Equipment

Date: 1977
Description: View of a red International Harvester Loadstar flatbed with no cab and hi-lift equipment for harvesting oranges. An African-American man is driving the tru...

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