The first strawberries by air, Wauchula Air Port, Wauchula, Fla. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The first strawberries by air, Wauchula Air Port, Wauchula, Fla. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The first strawberries by air, Wauchula Air Port, Wauchula, Fla.
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Here, a crate of the season's first strawberries is shown at the airfield in Wauchula, a small town in central Florida's Hardee County that was known for its berry crop. Flying fresh fruit north was a novel idea in the early 1930s, when most perishable produce still traveled slowly by rail and truck, so the picture records an effort to get the harvest to market faster. The photograph was made by George B. Moore, whose name appears in the copyright notation, and it is dated around February 1931. It is a useful record of how air transport was being tested for farm goods in the Depression years.
| Created / published | 1930, c1931 Feb. 2. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1930-1940.Portrait photographs 1930-1940.Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | JO8251 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by George B. Moore. |
| Subjects | Airplanes--Florida--Wauchula--1930-1940. Strawberries--Florida--Wauchula--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161183 |
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