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Book aimed to lure Easterners with fruit tales / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [43] [WAYITWAS-2000-43]
Are the people in New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Boston and elsewhere, who have paid a dollar a pound for California cherries in April, or who in 1887 ate nearly 2,000 carloads of California peaches, pears, plums, apricots and grapes, curious to know whence a good part of these fruits come, or to learn the manner of their growth and the appearance of the country?
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0046 0046
1895

Loading fruit for the Eastern Market. North end of Depot Street. Taken from top of Train Depot..
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Car tales offer readers a ride into the past / Bowen, Jerry [662] [WAYITWAS-2006-662]
Those of us who poke our respective noses into the dusty pages of the past often say that we can learn lessons from past mistakes and things that went right.
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0132 0132
1881

Weirtnor Ranch (Wertner). Fruit drying - 3-year-old paech orchard. Family reunion and "Eastern friends." (See also 083 and 194)
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0181 0181

37 year old pear tree bearing 600 pounds for years. Mrs. Buckingham..
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0083 0083
1888

California Fruit Growers entertaining Eastern friends. From California Illustrated Series, Vol 1, Plate IX (Photo 2345A). 1888. The ranch of F [...]

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0147 0147

Cherry Orchard, apricots and vineyard. Fruit drying. H. A. [...]

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0061 0061
1886

Packing shed on Alexander McKevitt's Ranch. Shipping grapes to Chicago 8 Nov., 1886. A. McKevitt (father of Frank B [...]

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2698 2698
1880

Old fruit wagon used for many years to haul packed fresh fruit from father Roger Hill Ranch to the Vacaville fruit sheds to be put on iced cars to East. - New York etc. Note: Rogers and Carle Loveland in Vacaville
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Publication showcased Vacaville to the rest of the world / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [41] [WAYITWAS-2000-41]
By the 1880s, immigration to California steadily increased. A large number of fruit ranches were established in the Vacaville area and elsewhere in the state. Newspapers, pamphlets and other printed advertisements throughout the United States extolled the beauty and climatic advantages of California, aiming to attract new settlers, and to open new markets.
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