Workmen move boxes of grapefruit, 1919

"Putting luscious grapefruit in field boxes for Yankee breakfast table use. Nowhere else in the world are such fine grapefruit raised as in this Indian River country." Packing crates stamped "Deerfield Groves June 1919." Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Published in the 1926 birthday event program with the caption "Gathering grapefruit in the Niagara Grove ten miles from Stuart." 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.

Scan gift of Bette Kindberg, via Sandra Thurlow.

Stuart Commercial Club (Stuart, Fla.)

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Black and white print; 9.5x7.5 inches

English

Still image

Thurlow-2024-022-SCC-008

2024.022

FPC 7512

Photographic print