Browse Items (31 total)

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  Large avocado tree, c. 1910

  Man stands beneath a large avocado tree at an orchard in West Palm Beach.
  
  Listed in the FPC record book 1 (PDF p. 88) as "2655 Avacada Tree, West Palm Beach, Fla."

  Tags Avocados, Fruit trees, Orchards
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  Grapefruit tree, c. 1912

  Grapefruit on a tree in Stuart. According to the Florida Photographic Concern logbook, photograph taken at Krueger property.
  
  Listed in the FPC record book 1 (PDF p. 147) as "4587 Kruger-Grapefruit, Chillingworth, Stuart, Fla., FGH"

  Tags Fruit trees, Grapefruit
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  Mango tree orchard, c. 1909

  Mango tree orchard in Miami.
  
  Listed in the FPC record book 1 (PDF p. 33) as "922 Mango Trees in fruit, Miami, Fla., 5.7, single, FGH"

  Tags Fruit trees, Mangoes, Orchards
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  Commercial tree grove, c. 1960

  Water sprinklers irrigate a commercial tree grove. Row of telephone poles also in view.

  Tags Fruit trees, Orchards, Sprinklers, Trees
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  Guava dumped into steam cookers, 1951

  Published in the Stuart News (13 Sep 1951) with the following caption about the manufacturing plant at Riverside Guava Groves, located "along the banks of the South Fork right by the old Road 76 bridge," which produced guava juice, a basic ingredient of guava jelly. The "...picture shows Mrs. Rhoades dumping a basket of guavas into one of the three 100-gal. steam cookers."
  
  Elton J. Rhoades (1886-1952) started Riverside Guava Groves in 1950, but died in 1952.

  Tags Buildings, Fruit trees, Orchards, Tractors
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  Riverside Guava Grove, 1951

  Tractor and factory building with Riverside Guava Groves in background.

  Tags Buildings, Fruit trees, Orchards, Tractors
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  Guava groves, 1951

  Published in the Stuart News (13 Sep 1951) with caption "[E. J.] Rhoades examines an example of the product of 35 acres of guavas on his holdings known as Riverside Guava Groves."

  Tags Buildings, Factories, Fruit trees, Orchards
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  In front of citrus tree, 1942

  Man stands in front of a citrus tree and a structure in view behind him. Photograph likely taken at Ruxton/Maribel Plantation.

  Tags African Americans, Citrus fruit, Fruit trees, Unidentified portraits
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  Trimming a fruit tree, c. 1952

  Jon Hall stands on a ladder and trims a citrus tree at his home in what was considered Sewall's Point at the time the photo was taken. The Frances Langford and Jon Hall property (later owned by Langford and Ralph Evinrude after divorce from Hall) was located on what is considered Jensen Beach today.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit trees
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  Two soldiers picking fruit, c. 1943

  Two young men picking fruit from a tree. From a CD labeled "Camp Murphy & USO Club (Stuart Rec Center)". Low quality scan.

  Tags Fruit trees, Military uniforms