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Three children in pineapple field, c. 1900
Three children stand in a pineapple field.
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House with pineapple field, c. 1900
Small house with adjacent pineapple field. -
Oversized pineapple on wagon, c. 1920
Colorized postcard image with an oversized pineapple being pulled on a horse drawn wagon. -
Racey Brothers Co. letterhead, c. 1905
Letterhead design for the Racey Brothers Co., an Indian River fruit business that operated on the Mount Elizabeth mound property in Jensen during the early 1900s. -
Pineapples on their stalks, c. 1920
Colorized postcard image with close up view of pineapples on stalks. -
Child in pineapple field, c. 1920
Colorized postcard image with child holding a pineapple and standing amongst rows of pineapple plants. -
Pineapple farm, c. 1920
Postcard image with man carrying an armload of pineapples though a pineapple field. -
Pineapples in crates, c. 1921
Colorized postcard image with pineapple crates in the foreground and fields of pineapples behind them. Original image (without colorization) published in the Farmers Bulletin 1237: Pineapple Culture In Florida from the United States Department of Agriculture, which was issued in November 1921. -
Portrait in pineapple field, c. 1905
Sam (left) and Henry Matthews stand in their Sewall's Point pineapple field, after moving to the property around 1904. During the 1920s, Sam Matthews worked as the only local contractor, building many of the early homes and commercial properties in Stuart and the surrounding areas.
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Frances King, 1970
Studio portrait of Frances C. King. Born Frances Carlberg in West Palm Beach, she suffered an early fall which led to a total loss of hearing. After attending the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts, Carlberg graduated from Palm Beach High School and went on to Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas), where she studied art. When visiting Sewall's Point with her parents in 1946, she met and later married Drew W. King, Stuart mayor (1949-1951), realtor and owner of the Pelican Hotel and Stuart Hardware Co.
Frances C. King continued to paint and advocate for the deaf community throughout her life and during her 51 years as a Stuart resident. Her art was exhibited all over the country and she served as an active member of the Oral Deaf Adult Section of the Alexander Graham Bell Association.