Loading boxes of fruit onto a freight train, 1919
Item
Title
Loading boxes of fruit onto a freight train, 1919
Subject
Description
"Shipping at High Rates by Freight from White City, Near Stuart, Florida." Workmen load boxes from packing house in White City. Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." 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.
Source
Scan gift of Bette Kindberg, via Sandra Thurlow.
Publisher
Stuart Commercial Club (Stuart, Fla.)
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 print; 9.4x7.6 inches
Language
English
Type
Still image
Identifier
Thurlow-2024-022-SCC-010
2024.022
FPC 7516
Original Format
Photographic print
Citation
Florida Photographic Concern (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) and Lowell Gordon Hill (1894-1955), “Loading boxes of fruit onto a freight train, 1919,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/4979.