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Tractor plowing field, c. 1923

Typed on back: "Tractor plowing on Tropical Farms near Stuart."

Recorded in the Florida Photographic Concern record book #2 (PDF page 49) as "7960-Prairie and Tractor, Fort Pierce (R.R. Martin)-Lowell" However, Tropical Farms is not in Fort Pierce.

Tags Croplands, Tractors

Mayor Ricou's pepper field, c. 1923

Several men standing in a field. Typed on back: "Mayor Ricou's peppers as they looked the first week in January 1923."

Recorded in the Florida Photographic Concern record book #2 (PDF page 59) as "8200-8225-Album Series-Lowell"

Tags Croplands

Pineapple Fields, c. 1905

Copy of a postcard labeled: Jensen, Fla. Bird's Eye View, The Pineapple Fields partly shedded. Many fields with covers over the growing pineapples.

Tags Croplands, Pineapples

Pineapples in cultivation, c. 1910

Planted pineapples.

Tags Croplands, Pineapple plantations, Pineapples

James packing house, c. 1915

Packing house in pineapple field. Labeled. L.D. James packing house and pineapples at Rio Fla.

Tags Agricultural laborers, Croplands, Packing plants

Bean pickers on Hutchinson Island, c. 1915

Men and women picking beans.

Tags Agricultural laborers, Croplands, Harvesting, Packing plants

Girls talking amid packed peppers, 1925

Two photos of a young girl, a young woman, and a toddler amid packing crates of green peppers. The young girl (left) may be Isabel Josephine Lyon. Toddler is apparently reading the July 15th, 1920 issue of Top-Notch Magazine, featuring a tale of daring adventure: Around the World in Eighty Hours.

Tags Agricultural laborers, Children, Vegetables

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