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Loading apple barrels for shipment

Photograph
B/W photo of a man standing on a flat bed wagon, hitched to a pair of mules or horses. Three men are unloading empty wooden barrels or loading apple barrels to /from a wooden platform. A Michigan Railway boxcar is parked alongside the platform.
96-28-1 Loading fruit cars.jpg 846KB; Box 31, envelope 96-28-1
CR15Jan2026-RailroadAppleLoadingBarrels.jpg 229KB; A very similar image. A man stands on the bed of a flat wagon harnessed to a pair of mules. Another man is seated on a barrel -- one of many waiting on a train platform next to a parked electric train. A third man is rolling a barrel into a railroad boxcar.

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Digital scan

According to Jack Sheridan, a very similar image is described as circa 1925, loading apples on the Interurban. The location is near the corner of North and Holland streets.

1870 Fruit growing, farming, agriculture1899 Interurban electric train -1926

Winthers, Sally

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Sheridan, John "Jack" O. 1938-

Donation

circa 1925

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01/15/2026