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Pineapple growing under wooden slat shedding, c. 1900
Pineapples growing under wooden slat shedding for shade.
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Hattie Rue, 1926
Harriet McVey Rue (1861-1957) holding a tomato or piece of fruit in a pineapple field. -
At Captain Richard's Plantation, Eden, c. 1890
Thomas E. Richards and a young boy watch the packing of pineapples into crates. Richards arrived in 1879, purchased land thirteen miles south of Fort Pierce, and named it "Eden." He established a successful pineapple farm and his home, "Eden Grove House," served as a hotel.
Illustration from the book, On the Indian River by C. Vickerstaff Hine. Chicago : Charles H. Sergel & Company, 1891. Hine documents his travels from Titusville south through the Jupiter Narrows to Lake Worth. Unknown photographer, perhaps Hine; engraving by Photo Tint Engraving Company. Available online (2024-07-12): https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-texts/123/ -
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.
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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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Pineapples growing under a wooden rack, c. 1905
Pineapples growing in a field under a wooden frame providing shade. -
Segerstrom family, 1904
Elizabeth Segerstrom and her children, Harry and Florence, in the pineapple field that surrounded their home in Jensen.
Photo from the South Fork High School 1991 publication, Thurlow collection, Florida Cracker Sampler, cover.
Also published in Thurlow's book, Historic Jensen (p. 99), with the caption: "Elizabeth Segerstrom stands in a pineapple field with her children, Florence and Harry, around 1904,. The house in the background, enlarged and modernized, was Harry's home for the rest of this life and is still owned by his descendants." -
Pineapples planted under shed cover, c. 1922
Vast planting of pineapples covered by a shed. Postmarked in Hemlock, New York on August 15, 1922. Message written to Leatha Worde in Toledo, Ohio from "Jennie."