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Workmen move boxes of grapefruit, 1919
"Putting luscious grapefruit in field boxes for Yankee breakfast table use. Nowhere else in the world are such fine grapefruit raised as in this Indian River country." Packing crates stamped "Deerfield Groves June 1919." Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Published in the 1926 birthday event program with the caption "Gathering grapefruit in the Niagara Grove ten miles from Stuart." 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. -
Clearing land, c. 1921
"Clearing land for a big pineapple plantation. There are six hundred acres of growing pineapples within two miles of Stuart Shores." Workers in the field with hoes. Stuart Shores was planned for the panhandle of Sewall's Point. 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.
Photograph published in the Farmers Bulletin 1237: Pineapple Culture In Florida from the United States Department of Agriculture, which was issued in November 1921.
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Pineapples growing between citrus trees, 1923
"Pineapples between citrus trees. A Highly Profitable Manner of Farming."
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.
Duplicate of JP-2025-012-pa1-017 -
Team of ox hauling fruit, 1908
"Bring in the fruit by ox-team before the canal is completed." Listed in FPC record book 1 as "586 Oxen Hauling Oranges."
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. -
Stuart pineapple field, 1910
"Stuart pineapples - 80 percent of all U.S. pineapples grown here." Pineapple field.
Listed in FPC record book 1 as "3124 T.J. O'Brien (field abbakes)."
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. -
Planting pineapples near Stuart, c. 1910
"Planting pineapples near Stuart - ten thousand slips to an acre." Three men, one woman in a bonnet, and three small children planting pineapple slips.
FPC negative number, 2100, written in ink on print (may not be accurate). 2100 is listed in FPC record book 1 as "2100 Lake Morton Lakeland."
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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Man driving cart filled with pineapples and bananas, 1909
"Bringing in pines and bananas from his little productive farm." Hill residence in background. Listed in FPC record book 1 as "668 Fruit in wagon-in front of studio."
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 man hunting, c. 1914
"The Seminoles used to own all of this land - Here is a hunter." Seminole man in palmettos holding a rifle. Listed in FPC record book 1 as "5118 Indian in Scrub with gun, Listening 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. -
Stuart Commercial Club photographs description, 1923
Damaged sheet taped to inside of photograph album. Text:
PHOTOGRAPHS
Made and secured especially for the consideration of the
United States Government Engineers
at the
PUBLIC HEARING IN STUART, FLA. JANUARY 16th, 1923
And present to them as part of the
facts, figures, data and reports
answering the questions they asked
to arrive at an opinion regarding
the recommendations of
GOVERNMENT AID FOR A DEEP WATER HARBOR HERE.
Photographs were carefully limited to views in and near
Stuart, Fla, and in the territory directly
Tributaries to the prospective Harbor here the North and
South Forks of the St. Lucie River, the Indian River close
to Stuart, the St. Lucie Control Canal, Salerno, Hobe Sound,
Port Sewall and the inlet.
The aim of the pictures is to back up the reports
Submitted potential out-going and incoming freight for ocean
going ships, if the harbor is made here.
STUART COMMERCIAL CLUB
Stuart, January 16, 1923
Property of Stanley Kitching