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Navy personnel portrait, 1958
Published in the Stuart News (28 Aug 1958) with the following caption: "Grumman Visitors. This group of 32 Navy fliers and Grumman Aircraft & Engineering Corp. personnel with planes in background was pictured at Witham Field recently. Commander Wilcox Howell, U.S.N., seventh from left, Commanding Officer of Anti-Submarine Squadron US-30, visited the local airport Aug. 12 through Aug. 14. The purpose of the Navy visit was to receive indoctrination from Grumman personnel on the maintenance of the electronics systems in their aircraft." -
Surveying flower beds at Franklin O. Rinker & Son flower farm, 1952
Franklin O. Rinker Sr. (right) points to another area as his son, Franklin O. Rinker Jr., kneels next to a row of flowers at their two acre flower farm on Britt Road, Rinker and Son, in Stuart. Similar photo captured by Arthur Ruhnke and published in the Stuart News (11 Dec 1952) indicates that the father-son duo "are standing in the center of a newly-planted five-bed block of plants with a central irrigation pipeline showing at their feet." -
Bernice Cochran with flowers, 1955
Published in the Stuart News (5 May 1955) with a caption reading "Stuart Flowers For Mother's Day. Mrs. Paul Cochran displays the sort of blooms destined to make mothers happy Sunday. Some 230,000 bunches are rolling from here as Martin County Flower Association members reach peak production for the national remembrance [sic] day." -
Between rows of flowers, 1955
Published in the Stuart News (5 May 1955) with a caption reading "Beautiful Fields Like This are Basis of Big Industry. Mrs. Art Ruhnke (left) and Mrs. Paul Cochran stand in a field of pom-pons and mums in Eldorado Heights. At least 16 such plantings in this area are providing the huge volume of shipments." -
Cochran Flower Farm, 1955
Paul Cochran stands amongst rows of flowers at his flower farm in Stuart. -
Paul Cochran packing bouquets of flowers, 1955
Published in the Stuart News (5 May 1955) with a caption reading "Flowers are Carefully Packed. Paul Cochran, Stuart grower, former Ohio landscape expert, is packing Mother's Day chrysanthemums. About 25 bunches like these go in a box." -
Loading flowers into cargo plane, c. 1953
Stuart grower, Paul Cochran loads boxes of cut flowers into a cargo plane. -
Franklin O. Rinker inspects flowers, 1952
Similar photo published in the Stuart News (11 Dec 1952) with a caption reading "Franklin O. Rinker, new Martin County resident from Bloomsburg, Pa., inspects a bed in his 2-acre flower-growing layout north of Stuart. This particular section of the layout was among the first planted by the Rinkers and their initial pom-pom blooms are scheduled to be cut from it next month" -
Children watch as cargo loaded, 1955
Published in the Stuart News (5 May 1955) with caption reading "Flowers Picked Today Reach N.Y. Tonight. Stan Smith, local grower, and Fred Strauss, manager of Witham Field, are loading flowers aboard a Riddle Air Lines plane, watched by Lucy Hupfel and Tommy Smith. A plane a day has gone out of here during this past week, with two plane-loads leaving Tuesday." -
Clifford Luce and son inspect shipment, 1952
Clifford Luce inspects boxes with his son for a flower shipment. Tropic Hotel visible in the background. Published in the Stuart News (15 May 1952) with a caption reading "... owner Luce and his son inspect boxes ready for shipment on the railroad platform in Stuart."