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Packing Grape Fruit, 1911
People outside a grapefruit packing plant. -
Packing Oranges in Florida, c. 1909
People working in a citrus packing shed. Caption: "Packing oranges. In packing oranges, boxes of light material are made, and each orange is wrapped separately in tissue paper. They are placed closely together in layers, so that there will be no rolling or sliding, and care is taken that only one grade is put into each box. According to the size of the fruit, a standard box will hold from 96 to 250."
Postmarked 1909, one cent stamp. -
Packing Fish, Florida, c. 1905
Group of men and boys amid barrels of fish.
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James packing house, c. 1915
Packing house in pineapple field. Labeled. L.D. James packing house and pineapples at Rio Fla. -
Ocean View packing house, c. 1910
Packing house and railway depot for Ocean View, which later was renamed Edenlawn. -
Packing house, c. 1885
Labeled: "Palmetto thatched packing hut in Eden FL. Will Richards kneeling and Harry besides tree." Several people work packing fruit in front of a hut. -
Levi M. Johnson with vegetable grower, 1942
County agricultural agent Levi M. Johnson (1909-1998), unidentified worker, and Albert Welch in a sweet pepper packing shed. -
Oranges ready to Ship, c. 1909
Oranges packed in crates at the Dixie Almond's packing house in Ft. Pierce.
Listed in the FPC record book 1 (PDF p. 34) as "949 Interior Almond's Packing House, HEH" -
Shoveling ice at crab plant, c. 1955
Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employee shovels ice into a barrel. -
Line of crab meat pickers, c. 1955
Line of Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employees work at picking crabs and filling cans with the meat.