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Harvesting flowers at Clifford Luce Flower Farm, 1952

Item

Title

Harvesting flowers at Clifford Luce Flower Farm, 1952

Description

Published in the Stuart News (15 May 1952) with a caption reading "Here's The Local Flower-Growing Operation Complete. [This scene is] exemplary of the moves made daily in this area by a number of flower growers to put their products on the markets… portray[s] shipping action at the Clifford Luce Flower Farm on the Indiantown road a mile west of Stuart. ... (left to right) Tom Reddish, Carol Seller, Matalu Summerville and Bernice Fripp are cutting the chrysanthemums under the farm's protective netting."

Source

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

The Stuart News (Stuart, Fla.)

Date

Rights

No Copyright - In the United States: The Martin County Library System believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. For more information, visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Format

Black and white negative, 4x5 inches

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

Thurlow-2025-004-flowers-045
2025.004

Coverage

Original Format

Negatives

Citation

Arthur Ruhnke (1912-1986), “Harvesting flowers at Clifford Luce Flower Farm, 1952,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/12109.