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Farming Fruit Growing - digital images

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Digital images about farming and fruit growing from the SDHC photo blog or other digital sources. Some photos were provided by Kit Lane for the 2011 SDHC publication "The Village Table"
ManWagonHorses.jpg 1.6MB - Digital file on Jack Sheridan Drive 2021.72.02; Man standing in a flat wagon pulled by pair of dark horses in an unknown orchard.
Spraying Douglas Mich.; Book_2003_4.04.jpg 321KB from SDHS 2003 from SDHS 2003 from SDHS 2003 FruitHistory.jpg 365KB; horse-drawn wagon loaded with fruit baskets FruitHistorya.jpg 343KB; Women fruit packers and stacks of fruit baskets FruitHistoryb.jpg 397KB; Cold Storage and Fennville Fruit Exchange FruitHistoryd.jpg 1.1MB; Packing fruit near Fennville, Mich colorized postcard of men on ladders and standing beside barrels of apples. FruitHistoryc.jpg 746KB; 1909 postcard address to Grace L. Overton 024.FruitGrower.SprayingFruitTreesDouglas.jpg 907KB; Two farmers standing on a horse-drawn cart and spraying fruit trees. HutchinsOrchards.jpg 344KB; Card promoting lodging at Hutchins' Orchards, H.H. Hutchins, Prop., Ganges Michigan, splendid accommodations for a limited number of summer boarders. Situation commands a broad sweep of beautiful country, with the blue expanse of Lake Michigan visible through the orchards. Near Hutchins Lake, splendid fishing, bathing and boating. Write for terms. 100 acres of fruit, peaches a specialty. Fruit Trees -Lorenz Postcard.jpg 14.9MB; scanned for History Lives Here land markers FruitTreesBlossom.jpg 3.4MB; From Kit Lane for use in SDHC 4.0_Orchard_barn_with_woman.jpg 430KB; A young woman and a boy outside a barn or shed behind the O.C. Simonds Orchard House in Pier Cove. The woman is feeding chickens. The boy is sitting on rustic stairs. In the distance are rows of fruit trees and more structures. Likey from the Simonds Pier Cove albums 2023.57.16-19. FruitGrowersMap.jpg 131KB StrawberryHarvest.jpg 412KB from Kit Lane; Four boxes filled with eight baskets of strawberries are protected by a canvas awning.

2023.10.43

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1870 Fruit growing, farming, agriculturePixels only

Winthers, Sally

2023.10

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These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023. The location of an original or printed version of these photos was unknown at the time of cataloging.

04/10/2023

08/24/2025