Anderson-Barngrover Mfg. Co.; Automobiles; Food Machinery Corporation; Industrial buildings; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation;
Black-and-white photograph of Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Plant exterior, circa 1920. Food Machinery Company photo. Anderson-Barngrover eventually merged in the late 1920s with the Bean Spray Co. to create FMC.
B&W photograph of a pitting device. Inscription reads "Pit finding and holding means - automatically adjusts knife to make correct size cut. Thomas B. Keesling Inventor. Mar 30 1948 - Witness - Chas. O Smith. #1109."
Canned fruit industry; Food processing machinery; Food processing machinery industry;
B&W photograph of the Pilot Pitter machine. "Pilot Pitter Inventor-Designor Thomas. B. Keesling, Photo Apr. 1948" and "1106" inscribed at the bottom of the photo.
Anderson-Barngrover Mfg. Co.; Continuous Agitating Cooker; Food Machinery Corporation; Industrial buildings; Industrial equipment; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History
Black-and-white photograph of Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Company Continuous Agitating Cooker, circa 1920.
Anderson-Barngrover Mfg. Co.; Exhibitions; Food Machinery Corporation; Industrial buildings; Industrial equipment; Pan-Pacific Exposition; Photographs; San Francisco (Calif.); San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History
Black-and-white photograph of Anderson-Barngrover Manufacturing Company Exhibit at the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, 1915.
Machinery; Mayors; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of Mayor J.L. Pritchard with hostesses at groundbreaking for co-operative Latter Day Saints project at Quince Ave., Santa Clara, circa 1950.
Machinery; Postcards; Sand and gravel plants; Saratoga (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Wooden-frame buildings;
Black-and-white photograph on postcard of the Santa Clara Co. Gravel Pit, Saratoga, Calif., featuring shack with "NEHI" advertisement. Postcard is unused.
Cupertino (Calif.); Highway 9; People; Photographs; Roads--Design and construction; Road machinery; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Stores & Shops--California--Cupertino;
Black-and-white photograph of the building of the first Highway 9 in 1915. The Cupertino Store is at right.
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of a group of people pumping water. Written on back of photograph, "Mrs. Frank A. (Lydia Ortley) Hunter, Mrs. Augustus (Mary Jane) Hunter, (Hand on fender?), Mr. Frank A. Hunter, front -- Clifford B. Hunter."
Hendy Iron Works; Industrial buildings; Iron-works; People; Postcards; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Sunnyvale (Calif.);
Black-and-white photograph on front of postcard of the interior of the Hendy Iron Works in Sunnyvale, Calif. Hendy Iron Works relocated to Sunnyvale after the San Francisco plant was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. It was the first large...
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; FMC Corporation; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of the Bean Spray Pump, circa 1915. The Bean Spray Pump Company manufactured high pressure orchard sprayers. The main plant was in San Jose. The company eventually evolved into the FMC Corporation.
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
On text that accompanies black-and-white photograph: "Disc-plowing with a 40 HP Best. This was one of the first models with a full track. Earlier models used short tracks for power plus a single wheel out front for steering. The driver is...
Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Orchards; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Spraying equipment; Technology;
Black-and-white photograph of four men spraying trees in an orchard. On verso of photo: "Keeping an orchard healthy called for a lot of work. It meant spraying, dusting, pruning, irrigating, or some other form of attention almost the year...
