Browse Items (35 total)

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  Grape Fruit, Florida, c. 1914

  Grapefruit tree.
  
  Postmarked 1914, one cent stamp.

  Tags Grapefruit, Orchards
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  Sour Oranges Growing Wild, Florida, c. 1912

  Men standing amid orange trees.
  
  Postmarked 1913, one cent stamp, "Florida Artistic Series"

  Tags Orange groves, Oranges, Orchards
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  Motoring through an Orange Grove, Florida, c. 1911

  Car driving between orange grove lanes.
  
  Florida Artistic Series, one cent stamp.

  Tags Automobiles, Orange groves, Oranges, Orchards
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  Walter Kitching inspects citrus tree, c. 1913

  Walter Kitching bends over to inspect a citrus tree, likely at his property in Stuart.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit trees, Orchards
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  Josephine Kitching in citrus grove, 1912

  Josephine Kitching in sailor dress stands against a citrus tree. View of citrus grove in background. Note written next to the photograph reads "Taken while at home Xmas of 1912, Stuart, Fla."

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit trees, Orchards
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  Group portrait at Taylor Bros. orchard, c. 1915

  Thomas Taylor (1867-1940), Julia Taylor Parks (1876-1933), her husband George W. Parks Sr. (1876-1943), and John Taylor (1869-1945) pose in front of citrus trees at the Thomas Bros. farm on the St. Lucie River in Stuart.
  
  Thomas, John, and Julia are siblings who came to Martin County in about 1898 from Ireland.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Orchards
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  Group portrait at Taylor Bros. orchard, c. 1915

  Group of four pose in front of fruit trees in an orchard. They are from left to right, Julia Taylor Parks, Thomas Taylor, George W. Parks Jr. and John Taylor. According to the Stuart Times (25 Apr 1913), John and Thomas Taylor (brothers to Julia Taylor Parks) owned a fruit farm on the St. Lucie River in Stuart.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Orchards
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  Citrus pickers on ladders, c. 1900

  Citrus grove with fruit pickers on ladders. Figure on the ground oversees the operation. Fruit crates in view in the background.

  Tags Citrus fruit industry, Fruit pickers, Orchards
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  Grove portrait, c. 1925

  Mark Baker, Vermelle Fulton (later Baker) and Ervin Fulton pose next to a pile of oranges at Baker grove on Sewall's Point. The Baker grove was located on a homestead first established by William H. Baker in 1880. The homestead also became the site of the Waveland Post Office soon thereafter. The Baker property was located near where the Stuart causeway starts on the east side Sewall’s Point. Mark and Vermelle Baker later moved to Palm City, where Vermelle became the postmaster for more than 17 years.

  Tags Florida-Sewall's Point, Orange orchards, Orchards
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  Large avocado tree, c. 1910

  Man stands beneath a large avocado tree at an orchard in West Palm Beach.
  
  Listed in the FPC record book 1 (PDF p. 88) as "2655 Avacada Tree, West Palm Beach, Fla."

  Tags Avocados, Fruit trees, Orchards