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Loading boxes of fruit onto a freight train, 1919
"Shipping at High Rates by Freight from White City, Near Stuart, Florida." Workmen load boxes from packing house in White City. Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. -
Fruit packing plant in White City, c. 1919
"Interior of fruit packing plant at White City, near Stuart, Florida on the north fork of the St. Lucie River." Large building with belts and men filling boxes. Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. -
Alfred Michael standing standing in his citrus grove, 1923
"Proving indisputably that citrus trees grow well here." Oranges or grapefruit trees. FPC-7515 listed in FPC record book 2 (p. 26) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Print available labeled "A.B. (Alf.) Michael in his grove." Alfred Benjamin Michael was the mate on Walter Kitching's boat, Wave, and settled in Wabasso in 1887.
Listed in the Florida Photographic Concern record book 2 (PDF page 2) as "American Fruit Growers Wabasso L"
Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
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Grove of citrus trees, 1916
"A young grove of great promise in this inlet district, near Stuart." Man standing amid field of trees. Oranges or grapefruit trees.
Recorded in the Florida Photographic Concern record book #2 (PDF page 57) as "6696-Seminole Grove (1916) Fort Pierce Farms-Lowell"
Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. -
Seminole Grove citrus trees, 1919
"A Citrus Gold Mine, in this Inlet District, Tributary to Stuart, Fla." Oranges or grapefruit trees. Listed in FPC record book 2 (S) as "7373 Seminole Grove Ft. Pierce Farms 1919 L." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. -
Williams orange tree, 1911
"Sturdy, Healthy, Heavy-Bearing Fruit Trees Are the Rule Here Near Stuart, Florida."
Listed in Florida Photographic Concern record book 1 as "3463 Williams Orange Tree." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
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Walkers Grove citrus tree, 1912
Oranges or grapefruit on a tree. Listed in FPC record book 1 as "4471 Walkers Grove Scenes Vero HE." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. -
Grapefruit tree, 1910
Grapefruit on a tree.
Listed in Florida Photographic Concern record book 1 (p. 33) as "927 Williams Grapefruit, W. Ft. Pierce, 1910 HEH."
Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
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Ricou Brothers Fish Company men with record catch of mackerel, 1923
"Mackerel, caught Jan 6, 1923, in Ocean near Stuart, Fla. These fish are shipped in barrels to New York."
Listed in Florida Photographic Concern record book 2 (M) as "7540 Mackerel Ft. Pierce."
Used in report presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. Published in the South Florida Developer (28 July 1925) with the caption: "A record catch of Spanish mackerel taken in a single day off the St. Lucie inlet by fishermen for the R.R. Ricou & Sons Co. of Jensen and Stuart. There were 100,000 pounds of fish in this haul. For twenty years commercial fishing has been one of the leading industries of these lower east coast communities."
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Display of sawfish and shark caught in Inlet, c. 1910
"Shark and fourteen-foot long sawfish caught at inlet." Several men and child with display of fish.
Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
Postcard published by Leighton & Valentine, which operated between 1909 and 1914.