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Photograph

Truck near Orchard

Date: 06 1923
Description: An International Harvester service truck sitting on the roadside at R.R. Robertson's orchard.
Photograph

Aerial View of State Reformatory

Date: 
Description: Aerial view includes farm and orchards, surrounded by neighborhoods. A water tower is on the upper left half.
Photograph

Apple Orchard along Road

Date: 05 26 1950
Description: Apple orchard in blossom on the side of a road. There are a number of cut stumps in the foreground. A house is in the background among trees, and a watchto...
Photograph

Tal-Wi-Wi Ranches Truck

Date: 1950
Description: A man drives an International L-170 truck owned by Tal-Wi-Wi Ranches down a dirt road past grapefruit trees. The original caption reads, "The recently purc...
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...
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.
Photograph

Pesticide Sprayer

Date: 06 29 1939
Description: Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can...
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

Spring

Date: 05 1916
Description: A cow lies along the road outside a fence; two calves lie behind the fence under blooming cherry trees. The road is identified as Sturgeon Bay Road, now Hi...
Photograph

Cow Along Road

Date: 1916
Description: A cow, lying outside the fence, observes a car stopped on Sturgeon Bay Road (now Highway 42). Cherry trees bloom inside the fence.
Photograph

Cows in Spring

Date: 1916
Description: A cow lies along the road outside a fence; two calves lie behind the fence under blooming cherry trees. The road is identified as Sturgeon Bay Road, now Hi...
Photograph

Central Farm

Date: 1919
Description: Weathered farm buildings stand beside a dirt road. Behind the buildings, the orchard is in bloom.
Photograph

Model T Ford

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's automobile parked at the entrance to his cherry orchard. A sign on the gate offers a $25 reward for information on anyone stealing fruit...
Photograph

Orchard in Bloom

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

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...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This Wisconsin Conservation Commission map from 1916 shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open and pla...
Map or Atlas

Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1916
Description: This version of a 1916 Wisconsin Conservation Commission map shows Peninsula State Park in the Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin. Depicted are open...

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