Adobes, Mission Santa Clara; Dwellings; Ohlone Indians; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Black-and-white photograph of Old Adobe. On verso of photo: "Old Adobe built in 1807 in old Santa Clara -- Mrs. Hare photo. An early mission apartment for an Indian couple and family built under Padre Magin Catalas administration in 1807 when...
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...
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.
Agriculture; Apricot; Canned fruit industry; Dried fruit; Fruit; Photographs; San Jose (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Stone fruit;
Black-and-white photograph of apricots being weighed. "Canners usually differentiate prices depending on the number of apricots required to make a pound. Fruit as small as 16 to the pound is ordinarily canned. Even 18s have been put up. 14s...
Agriculture; Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998; Canned fruit industry; Cherries; Difiore's Cherry Orchard; Fruit; Italian Americans; People; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Women;
Black-and-white photograph of nine cherry packers (seven women and two men) at Difiore's Cherry Orchard.
Agriculture; Automobiles; Orchards; Photographs; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Transportation; Trees;
Black-and-white panoramic photograph of automobile parked alongside road circling orchard. Caption reads "Santa Clara Valley in Springtime. The Valley of Heart's Delight."
Agriculture; Orchards; Photographs; Prunes; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Saratoga Avenue (San Jose, Calif.); Trees;
Black-and-white panoramic photograph of a prune orchard in spring along Saratoga Avenue. Summit Rock in background. Goodrich house by Julia Morgan at center left. Painted in by hand.
Agriculture; Orchards; Postcards; Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History;
Color postcard of an Almond Orchard in Blossom, California. Made in America by Edw. H. Mitchell at San Francisco. Addressed to, "Miss Laura Dixon, Tulare Co. Cal."
