Browse Items (14 total)

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  Richardson family visits Taylor home, 1953

  Lulu Richardson (middle) poses with her daughters, Ella Fern (left) and Charlotte Richardson next to a citrus tree on the Taylor property in Stuart.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit trees
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  Walter Kitching inspects citrus tree, c. 1913

  Walter Kitching bends over to inspect a citrus tree, likely at his property in Stuart.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit trees, Orchards
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  Emma Kitching next to citrus tree, 1912

  Emma Kitching looks at a grouping of fruit on a citrus tree, Christmas 1912.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Dwellings, Fruit trees
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  Josephine Kitching in citrus grove, 1912

  Josephine Kitching in sailor dress stands against a citrus tree. View of citrus grove in background. Note written next to the photograph reads "Taken while at home Xmas of 1912, Stuart, Fla."

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit trees, Orchards
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  Group portrait at Taylor Bros. orchard, c. 1915

  Thomas Taylor (1867-1940), Julia Taylor Parks (1876-1933), her husband George W. Parks Sr. (1876-1943), and John Taylor (1869-1945) pose in front of citrus trees at the Thomas Bros. farm on the St. Lucie River in Stuart.
  
  Thomas, John, and Julia are siblings who came to Martin County in about 1898 from Ireland.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Orchards
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  Group portrait at Taylor Bros. orchard, c. 1915

  Group of four pose in front of fruit trees in an orchard. They are from left to right, Julia Taylor Parks, Thomas Taylor, George W. Parks Jr. and John Taylor. According to the Stuart Times (25 Apr 1913), John and Thomas Taylor (brothers to Julia Taylor Parks) owned a fruit farm on the St. Lucie River in Stuart.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Orchards
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  Ruxton Plantation postcard, c. 1910

  Man cuts into a grapefruit or pomelo fruit on top of a basket at Ruxton Plantation.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Unidentified portraits
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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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  Hansen Brothers produce stand, 1954

  Hansen Bros. Groves, Indian River fruit stand, 9 miles north of Stuart. Published in the 1954 Martin County High School yearbook.

  Tags Citrus fruit, Fruit