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Arrieta Ranch water control, c. 1950
Concrete piece of equipment with sign: Arrieta Ranch, caterpillar, Clewiston Motor Co." Handwritten on back: "Water control, Troup-Hinson. Photo by Cody Publications" -
Packing house with tram rails, c. 1950
Handwritten on back: "Craig Old Dominion Plantation. Showing wooden rails turntable used as a switch. Packing house with tram car with Ike in the distance." -
Agar-Agar plant, c. 1950
Two men working with some equipment. Handwritten on back: "Agar Agar plant Jensen Beach." Jensen Beach once had a factory for agar-agar, a gelatin substance made from seaweed that had many uses. The factory opened in 1945 and continued operation until 1949, when the factory was severely damaged in a hurricane. -
Citrus fruit processing machine, c. 1950
Citrus fruit moves up a conveyer system as it is loaded into a large truck for shipping. Two workers stand nearby and around a large trailer filled with fruit. Handwritten on back of another copy: "Packing oranges, Port Mayaca" -
Men with lawn mowers, 1960
Two men on lawn mowers with a friend. Handwritten on back: "Lewis and Willie and Charlie" -
Pepper farm operation, 1962
Pepper farm employees work alongside a conveyor belt system. Crates fill the top floor of the structure and workers are spaced out along the conveyor belt, performing different tasks, some load the belt with peppers from the field while other inspect and sort the peppers for shipment. The pepper field may be at Hogan Farm in Jupiter. Photographs at the behest of W. R. Scott, who served as the president of the Stuart Chamber of Commerce, a state representative and attorney for the city of Stuart and the county. -
Pepper farm equipment, 1962
Conveyor belt structure and equipment, possibly at Hogan pepper farm. Photographs taken by or at the behest of W. R. Scott, who served as the president of the Stuart Chamber of Commerce, a state representative and attorney for the city of Stuart and the county. -
Hogan pepper field, 1968
Workers at the Hogan pepper field in Jupiter. -
Tractor at flower farm, 1988
Unidentified man drives a tractor through a large, covered area with many flower beds at a Martin County flower farm. -
Farming scene, c. 1965
Three employees at the Dow chemical flower farm. One of the workers drives a tractor with plow equipment attached to it, while the two other workers stand behind the tractor with shovels. The earth behind the plow equipment appears flooded or filled with water.